Ciliated protozoa of two antarctic lakes: Analysis by quantitative protargol staining and examination of artificial substrates

Polar Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 285-294

  Kepner Jr , Raymond L ^a   Wharton Jr , Robert A ^a   Coats, D Wayne ^b  

^a DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER;

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; LAKE; PROTOZOA; TAXONOMY;

ANIMAL; ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIUM; CILIATE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY; NON-NASA CENTER; PROTOZOON; ZOOPLANKTON;

NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY; NON-NASA CENTER;

ANIMALS; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; BACTERIA; CILIOPHORA; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; ECOSYSTEM; FRESH WATER; PROTOZOA; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; ZOOPLANKTON;

ANTARCTICA;

ANIMALIA; ASKENASIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CILIOPHORA; MONODINIUM; MYXOZOA; PLAGIOCAMPA; PROTOZOA; SPHAEROPHRYA; VORTICELLA;

EID: 0345161416     PISSN: 07224060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003000050364     Document Type: Article

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