The effects of sulphide on growth and behaviour of the thiotrophic Zoothamnium niveum symbiosis

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 274, Issue 1623, 2007, Pages 2259-2269

  Rinke, Christian ^a   Lee, Raymond ^b   Katz, Sigrid ^a   Bright, Monika ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Cultivation; Flow through; Protist; Sulphide; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

SEA WATER; SULFIDE;

BACTERIUM; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CILIATE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); GROWTH RESPONSE; HABITAT QUALITY; MORPHOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SULFIDE; SURVIVAL; SYMBIOSIS;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL REPRODUCTION; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; CELL DIVISION; CILIATE; FRANCE; HABITAT; INOCULATION; LIFESPAN; MICROMORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOON; RESPIROMETER; SYMBIOSIS; ZOOTHAMNIUM NIVEUM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CILIOPHORA; OLIGOHYMENOPHOREA; PROTISTA; ZOOTHAMNIUM NIVEUM;

EID: 34548492467     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.0631     Document Type: Article

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