Low densities of epiphytic bacteria from the marine alga Ulva australis inhibit settlement of fouling organisms

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 24, 2007, Pages 7844-7852

  Rao, Dhana ^a   Webb, Jeremy S ^a,b   Holmström, Carola ^a   Case, Rebecca ^a   Low, Adrian ^a   Steinberg, Peter ^a   Kjelleberg, Staffan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; ASSAYS; BIOFILMS; CELL CULTURE; MICROBIOLOGY;

FOULING ORGANISMS; PSEUDOALTEROMONAS TUNICATA; ROSEOBACTER GALLAECIENSIS;

BACTERIA;

POLYSTYRENE;

ALGA; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIUM; BIOFILM; EPIPHYTE; FUNGUS; SETTLING BEHAVIOR;

ALGA; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOFILM; CELL ADHESION; CELL DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOULING ORGANISM; GAMETE; INHIBITION KINETICS; INVERTEBRATE; MARINE BACTERIUM; MARINE SPECIES; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PSEUDOALTEROMONAS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; ROSEOBACTER; ULVA AUSTRALIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBIOSIS; BACTERIA; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; FUNGI; GERM CELLS; LARVA; ULVA;

ALGAE; ALTEROMONAS SP.; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BUGULA NERITINA; CELLULOPHAGA FUCICOLA; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; INVERTEBRATA; PHAEOBACTER; POLYSIPHONIA; PSEUDOALTEROMONAS GRACILIS; PSEUDOALTEROMONAS TUNICATA; ROSEOBACTER GALLAECIENSIS; ULVA AUSTRALIS;

EID: 37349010347     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01543-07     Document Type: Article

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