Effects of long-term starvation on a host bivalve (Codakia orbicularis, lucinidae) and its symbiont population

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3304-3313

  Caro, Audrey ^a,b   Got, Patrice ^a   Bouvy, Marc ^a   Troussellier, Marc ^a   Gros, Olivier ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ MONTPELLIER 2   (France)

^b Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL POPULATION; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GRANULE CELLS; IN-CELL; LONG-TERM EXPERIMENTS; NUCLEIC ACID CONTENTS; ORBICULARIS; RESPIRATORY ACTIVITY; STARVATION CONDITIONS; STRUCTURAL MODIFICATIONS;

CELL MEMBRANES; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; NUCLEIC ACIDS; SULFUR; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

SEAWATER;

CHLORIDE; LYSOZYME; NUCLEIC ACID;

ABUNDANCE; BIVALVE; CELL ORGANELLE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; NUTRITION; STARVATION; SURVIVAL; SYMBIONT; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIUM; BIVALVE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL SIZE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CLAM; DIGESTION; ENDOSYMBIONT; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENOME; GENOMICS; GILL; GRANULE CELL; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; STARVATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL; SYMBIONT; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BIVALVIA; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; GILLS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; STARVATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BIVALVIA; CODAKIA ORBICULARIS; LUCINIDAE;

EID: 66249121729     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02659-08     Document Type: Article

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