Oxygen sensing drives predictable migrations in a microbial community

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 81-85

  Finlay, Bland J ^a   Esteban, Genoveva F ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER; OXYGEN;

AEROBIC METABOLISM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMOTAXIS; CILIATE; METABOLISM; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEDIMENT; UNITED KINGDOM;

AEROBIOSIS; ANIMALS; CHEMOTAXIS; CILIOPHORA; FRESH WATER; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GREAT BRITAIN; OXYGEN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CILIOPHORA; MYXOZOA; PROTISTA; PROTOZOA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 58149267942     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2008.01742.x     Document Type: Article

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