Healthy corals maintain Vibrio in the VBNC state

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 116-119

  Sharon, Gil ^a   Rosenberg, Eugene ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHOZOA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); OCULINA PATAGONICA; VIBRIO;

EID: 77957261343     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1758-2229.2009.00113.x     Document Type: Article

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