Bloom of filamentous bacteria in a mesotrophic lake: Identity and potential controlling mechanism

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 6272-6281

  Pernthaler, Jakob ^a   Zöllner, Eckart ^b   Warnecke, Falk ^a   Jürgens, Klaus ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLONING; FLUORESCENCE; LAKES; NUTRITION; OLIGOMERS; RNA;

CLUSTERS; SPECIES;

BACTERIA;

FRESH WATER; LAKE WATER;

BACTERIUM; BACTERIVORY; MESOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; WATER COLUMN; ZOOPLANKTON;

ACIDIFICATION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPLANKTON; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GRAZING; METAZOON; MICROBIAL BIOMASS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RNA GENE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; WATER SAMPLING;

ANIMALS; CYTOPHAGA; DAPHNIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ECOSYSTEM; FLAVOBACTERIUM; FRESH WATER; GERMANY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; ZOOPLANKTON;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLADOCERA; DAPHNIA; METAZOA; PROTISTA;

EID: 8144224953     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.10.6272-6281.2004     Document Type: Article

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