Ecological strategies of protists and their symbiotic relationships with prokaryotic microbes

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 563-569

  Gast, Rebecca J ^a   Sanders, Robert W ^b   Caron, David A ^c  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATERING SERVICE; CILIATE; DEFENSE MECHANISM; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FLAGELLATE; INNATE IMMUNITY; MARINE SPECIES; MICROORGANISM; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROTISTAN COMMUNITY; REVIEW; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTIC CELLS; SYMBIOSIS;

CILIOPHORA; FORAMINIFERA; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); PROKARYOTA; PROTISTA; RHIZARIA;

EID: 70449713796     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2009.09.001     Document Type: Review

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