Pelagic food web patterns: Do they modulate virus and nanoflagellate effects on picoplankton during the phytoplankton spring bloom?

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2755-2772

  Ory, Pascaline ^a   Hartmann, Hans J ^a   Jude, Florence ^b   Dupuy, Christine ^a   Del Amo, Yolanda ^b   Catala, Philippe ^c   Mornet, Françoise ^d   Huet, Valérie ^a   Jan, Benoit ^a   Vincent, Dorothée ^e   Sautour, Benoit ^b   Montanié, Hélène ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LA ROCHELLE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ BORDEAUX 1   (France)

^c LABORATOIRE ARAGO   (France)

^d IFREMER   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DU LITTORAL CÔTE D OPALE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES);

EID: 77957304625     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2010.02243.x     Document Type: Article

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