High motility reduces grazing mortality of planktonic bacteria

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 921-929

  Matz, Carsten ^a,c,d   Jürgens, Klaus ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAZERS; GRAZING LOSSES; MOTILITY; SWIMMING SPEED;

CELLS; INGESTION (ENGINES); MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; PROTOZOA; STRAIN;

BACTERIA;

BACTERIUM; GRAZING; MORTALITY; MOTILITY; PLANKTON;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPLANKTON; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CELL MOTILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUKARYOTIC FLAGELLUM; FLAGELLATE; GRAZING; GROWTH RATE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTOZOON; SURVIVAL TIME; SWIMMING;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; COMAMONADACEAE; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FOOD CHAIN; FRESH WATER; MASTIGOPHORA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOVEMENT; PLANKTON; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); PROTOZOA;

EID: 13544271693     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.71.2.921-929.2005     Document Type: Article

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