Structural and functional patterns of bacterial communities in response to protist predation along an experimental productivity gradient

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2857-2871

  Corno, Gianluca ^a,b   Jürgens, Klaus ^a,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; FRESH WATER; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CYTOLOGY; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PREDATION; PROTOZOON; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FRESH WATER; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; PROTOZOA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); PROTISTA;

EID: 51649125912     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2008.01713.x     Document Type: Article

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