Marine planktonic ciliates that prey on macroalgae and enslave their chloroplasts

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 308-313

  McManus, George B ^a,b   Zhang, Huan ^a   Lin, Senjie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPLAST; CILIATE; GRAZING; GROWTH RATE; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; MACROALGA; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

ALGAE; CILIOPHORA; ENTEROMORPHA; EUKARYOTA; STROMBIDIUM; STROMBIDIUM OCULATUM; STROMBIDIUM STYLIFER; ULVA; ULVOPHYCEAE;

EID: 0742285067     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2004.49.1.0308     Document Type: Article

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