Effect of biotic and abiotic factors on in vitro proliferation, encystment, and excystment of Pfiesteria piscicida

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 20, 2007, Pages 6410-6420

  Saito, Keiko ^a   Drgon, Tomás ^a,b   Krupatkina, Danara N ^a   Drgonova, Jana ^a,b   Terlizzi, Daniel E ^a   Mercer, Natalia ^a,c   Vasta, Gerardo R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE   (United States)

^c FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS EXACTAS   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL PROLIFERATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FISH; GROWTH KINETICS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ENVIRONMENTAL SAMPLES; EXCYSTMENT; GROWTH CURVE; PFIESTERIA PROLIFERATION;

ALGAE;

AMMONIA; NITRATE; PHOSPHATE; SEA WATER; UREA;

CLONE; COASTAL WATER; CYST; DINOFLAGELLATE; ENCYSTMENT; FEEDING; GERMINATION; GROWTH; MORPHOLOGY;

ALGA; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CHICKEN; CULTURE MEDIUM; FISH; FOOD DEPRIVATION; GERMINATION; GROWTH CURVE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; MANURE; MICROBIAL GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PARASITE ISOLATION; PFIESTERIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHODOMONAS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEDIMENT; SOIL;

ALGAE; ANIMALS; AQUACULTURE; DARKNESS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENE DOSAGE; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; KILLIFISHES; LIGHT; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; PFIESTERIA PISCICIDA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPORES, PROTOZOAN;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

ALGAE; DINOPHYCEAE; PFIESTERIA; PFIESTERIA PISCICIDA; RHODOMONAS SP.;

EID: 35448973655     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01229-07     Document Type: Article

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