Off the hook - How bacteria survive protozoan grazing

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 302-307

  Matz, Carsten ^a,b   Kjelleberg, Staffan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACIDIFICATION; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIOPLANKTON; COCULTURE; CYTOLYSIS; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; ENZYME DEGRADATION; FOOD CHAIN; FOOD WEB; MICROBIAL MAT; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; PREDATION RISK; PREDATOR; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PREY SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOON; REVIEW; SPECIES DOMINANCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CELLULAR ORGANISMS; EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 21244452656     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2005.05.009     Document Type: Article

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