Variability in protist grazing and growth on different marine Synechococcus isolates

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 3074-3084

  Apple, Jude K ^a   Strom, Suzanne L ^a   Palenik, Brian ^b   Brahamsha, Bianca ^b  

^a WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL SIZE; FEEDING GUILDS; FILTER-FEEDING; FOOD SOURCES; MARINE PHYTOPLANKTON; MICROBIAL FOOD WEB; MODEL SYSTEM; PACIFICA; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

ECOLOGY; EXPERIMENTS; MARINAS; MARINE BIOLOGY; PHYTOPLANKTON; STRAIN;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

CYANOBACTERIUM; DINOFLAGELLATE; FOOD WEB; GRAZING; GROWTH RATE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; PHYLOGENETICS; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PROTIST; SURVIVAL;

ALVEOLATA; ARTICLE; CRYPTOPHYTA; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

ALVEOLATA; CRYPTOPHYTA; MICROBIAL INTERACTIONS; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

CILIOPHORA; DINOPHYCEAE; GONIOMONAS PACIFICA; OXYRRHIS MARINA; PROTISTA; SYNECHOCOCCUS; TINTINNIDA;

EID: 79955637387     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02241-10     Document Type: Article

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