Relative importance of nanoflagellates and ciliates as consumers of bacteria in a coastal sea area dominated by oligotrichous Strombidium and Strobilidium

Aquatic Microbial Ecology

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 139-147

  Ichinotsuka, Daisuke ^a   Ueno, Hiroyuki ^a   Nakano, Shin Ichi ^a  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coastal sea; Grazing; Japan; Microbial food web; Nanoflagellates; Oligotrichous ciliates

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CILIOPHORA; CYTTAROCYLIS; LABOEA; LOHMANIELLA; MYRIONECTA RUBRA; OLIGOTRICHS; PROTISTA; SCUTICOCILIATIA; STROBILIDIUM; STROMBIDIUM; TINTINNOPSIS;

EID: 33645338161     PISSN: 09483055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/ame042139     Document Type: Article

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