Protozoan grazing increases mineralization of naphthalene in marine sediment

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 460-469

  Tso, Suk Fong ^a,b   Taghon, Gary L ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Oi Kan House   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHALASIN B; MINERAL; NAPHTHALENE; NAPHTHALENE DERIVATIVE;

BIOREMEDIATION; ESTUARINE SEDIMENT; GRAZING; MARINE SEDIMENT; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MINERALIZATION; NAPHTHALENE; PROTOZOAN; XENOBIOTICS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTOZOON; SEDIMENT;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CYTOCHALASIN B; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MINERALS; NAPHTHALENES; PROTOZOA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CILIOPHORA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 33745512615     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-006-9058-4     Document Type: Article

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