Impact of Violacein-Producing Bacteria on Survival and Feeding of Bacterivorous Nanoflagellates

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1593-1599

  Matz, Carsten ^a,d   Deines, Peter ^a   Boenigk, Jens ^b   Arndt, Hartmut ^b   Eberl, Leo ^e   Kjelleberg, Staffan ^d   Jürgens, Klaus ^a,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROWTH KINETICS; METABOLITES; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; MUTAGENESIS; PROTOZOA; TOXICITY;

BACTERIVOROUS NANOFLAGELLATES; HIGH-RESOLUTION VIDEO MICROSCOPY;

BACTERIA;

LACTONE DERIVATIVE; N ACYLHOMOSERINE LACTONE; PIGMENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIOLACEIN;

BACTERIUM; FEEDING; SECONDARY METABOLITE; SURVIVAL;

ANTIPROTOZOAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BACTERIVORY; CELL DEATH; CHROMOBACTERIUM; CHROMOBACTERIUM VIOLACEUM; CYTOLYSIS; FEEDING; FLAGELLATE; GROWTH; JANTHINOBACTERIUM LIVIDUM; PROTOZOON; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALS; ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENTS; CHROMOBACTERIUM; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; INDOLES; MASTIGOPHORA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OCHROMONAS; OXALOBACTERACEAE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHROMOBACTERIUM VIOLACEUM; JANTHINOBACTERIUM LIVIDUM; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); NEGIBACTERIA; PROTOZOA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

EID: 1642340554     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.3.1593-1599.2004     Document Type: Article

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