Aggregate formation in a freshwater bacterial strain induced by growth state and conspecific chemical cues

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2486-2495

  Blom, Judith F ^a   Horňák, Karel ^b   Šimek, Karel ^b   Pernthaler, Jakob ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COCULTURE; COMAMONADACEAE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROBIOLOGY; OCHROMONAS; PHYSIOLOGY; SPHINGOMONADACEAE;

ANIMALS; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; COMAMONADACEAE; FRESH WATER; OCHROMONAS; SPHINGOMONADACEAE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); POTERIOOCHROMONAS; PROTISTA; SPHINGOBIUM;

EID: 77956234391     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2010.02222.x     Document Type: Article

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