Annual changes of bacterial mortality due to viruses and protists in an oligotrophic coastal environment (NW Mediterranean)

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1181-1193

  Boras, Julia A ^a   Sala, M Montserrat ^a   Vázquez Domínguez, Evaristo ^a   Weinbauer, Markus G ^b,c   Vaqué, Dolors ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^b LABORATOIRE D OCÉANOGRAPHIE DE VILLEFRANCHE   (France)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANTIBIOSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIOLYSIS; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LYSOGENIZATION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MICROBIOLOGY; PROTOZOON; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTIBIOSIS; BACTERIA; BACTERIOLYSIS; BACTERIOPHAGES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; LYSOGENY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; PROTOZOA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROTISTA;

EID: 65349096723     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2008.01849.x     Document Type: Article

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