A biochemical explanation for the success of mixotrophy in the flagellate Ochromonas sp.

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1624-1632

  Boëchat, Iola G ^a,c   Weithoff, Guntram ^b   Krüger, Angela ^a   Gücker, Björn ^a   Adrian, Rita ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF FRESHWATER ECOLOGY AND INLAND FISHERIES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOTROPHY; BACTERIVORY; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; FATTY ACID; FLAGELLATE; HETEROTROPHY; MIXOTROPHY; STEROL;

MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); OCHROMONAS;

EID: 34547232506     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2007.52.4.1624     Document Type: Article

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