Flagellate predation on a bacterial model community: Interplay of size- selective grazing, specific bacterial cell size, and bacterial community composition

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 4863-4872

  Hahn, Martin W ^a,b   Höfle, Manfred G ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON;

BACTERIUM; CHEMOSTAT; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; FLAGELLATE; GRAZING; PREDATION; SIZE SELECTION;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM COLONY; CELL SIZE; CHEMOSTAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLAGELLATE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; PSEUDOMONAS; TAXONOMY;

OCHROMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS;

EID: 0344374434     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.11.4863-4872.1999     Document Type: Article

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