Toxicity of violacein-producing bacteria fed to bacterivorous freshwater plankton

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1343-1352

  Deines, Peter ^a,b   Matz, Carsten ^a,c   Jurgens, Klaus ^a,d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; CHEMICAL DEFENSE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOTOXICOLOGY; FOOD WEB; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH RATE; PELAGIC ENVIRONMENT; SECONDARY METABOLITE; SURVIVORSHIP; VIRUS; ZOOPLANKTON;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BODO SALTANS; BRACHIONUS; CHROMOBACTERIUM VIOLACEUM; CILIOPHORA; COLPIDIUM; DAPHNIA; DAPHNIA MAGNA; JANTHINOBACTERIUM LIVIDUM; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); OCHROMONAS; ROTIFERA; TETRAHYMENA PYRIFORMIS;

EID: 67650824958     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2009.54.4.1343     Document Type: Article

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