Host parasite interactions between freshwater phytoplankton and chytrid fungi (Chytridiomycota)

Journal of Phycology

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 437-453

  Ibelings, Bas W ^a   De Bruin, Arnout ^a   Kagami, Maiko ^a   Rijkeboer, Machteld ^a   Brehm, Michaela ^a   Van Donk, Ellen ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chytrids; Coevolution; Diatoms; Epidemics; Food webs; Hosts; Parasites; Phytoplankton; Succession; Zoospores

Indexed keywords

FUNGUS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; PHYTOPLANKTON;

ALGAE; ASTERIONELLA; ASTERIONELLA FORMOSA; BACILLARIOPHYTA; CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; FUNGI; RHIZOPHYDIUM; RHIZOPHYDIUM PLANKTONICUM; ZYGORHIZIDIUM PLANKTONICUM;

EID: 2942624438     PISSN: 00223646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1529-8817.2004.03117.x     Document Type: Review

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