Physiolgical diversity in widely distributed microzooplankton: Digestion in the ciliate Euplotes vannus

Microbial Ecology Research Trends

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 207-220

  Dolan, John R ^a   Wayne Coats, D ^b  

^a LABORATOIRE D OCÉANOGRAPHIE DE VILLEFRANCHE   (France)

^b SMITHSONIAN ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

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