Differential grazing of two heterotrophic nanoflagellates on marine Synechococcus strains

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1767-1776

  Zwirglmaier, Katrin ^a   Spence, Ed ^a   Zubkov, Mikhail V ^b   Scanlan, David J ^a   Mann, Nicholas H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEA WATER;

ARTICLE; CHRYSOPHYTA; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; STRAMENOPILE; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

CHRYSOPHYTA; SEAWATER; STRAMENOPILES; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

PARAPHYSOMONAS; PARAPHYSOMONAS IMPERFORATA; PTERIDOMONAS; PTERIDOMONAS DANICA; SYNECHOCOCCUS; SYNECHOCOCCUS SP.;

EID: 67649905014     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2009.01902.x     Document Type: Article

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