Strain-specific differences in the grazing sensitivities of closely related ultramicrobacteria affiliated with the Polynucleobacter cluster

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 5787-5793

  Boenigk, Jens ^a   Stadler, Peter ^a   Wiedlroither, Anneliese ^a   Hahn, Martin W ^a  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENES; RNA; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

FLAGELLATES; PLANKTON;

BACTERIA;

RNA 16S;

BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CLEARANCE RATE; GRAZING; MORTALITY; PREDATOR; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPLANKTON; CELL VOLUME; FLAGELLATE; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; GRAZING; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; POLYNUCLEOBACTER; PREDATION; PREDATOR; PREY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPUMELLA;

ANIMALS; BURKHOLDERIACEAE; EVOLUTION; MASTIGOPHORA; PLANKTON; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); POLYNUCLEOBACTER; PROTISTA; SPUMELLA;

EID: 8144229671     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.10.5787-5793.2004     Document Type: Article

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