Easy visualization of the protist Oxyrrhis marina grazing on a live fluorescently labelled heterotrophic nanoflagellate

Current Microbiology

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 45-50

  Martín Cereceda, Mercedes ^a   Williams, Richard A J ^a   Novarino, Gianfranco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUOROCHROME;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DNA BINDING; FLAGELLATE; FLUORESCENCE; GONIOMONAS AMPHINEMA; GRAZING; NONHUMAN; OXYRRHIS MARINA; PHOTOCHEMICAL QUENCHING; PLANKTON; PREY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME;

ANIMALS; BENZIMIDAZOLES; DINOFLAGELLIDA; INDICATORS AND REAGENTS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PLANKTON; SEAWATER;

DINOPHYCEAE; EUKARYOTA; GONIOMONAS AMPHINEMA; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); OXYRRHIS; OXYRRHIS MARINA; PROTISTA;

EID: 44149113231     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: 14320991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-008-9150-8     Document Type: Article

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