Small eats big: Ecology and diversity of bdellovibrio and like organisms, and their dynamics in predator-prey interactions

Sustainable Agriculture

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 275-284

  Yair, Shemesh ^b   Yaacov, Davidov ^b   Susan, Koval ^b   Jurkevitch, Edouard ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Bacterial predation; Bdellovibrio; BLO; Predatory bacteria

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863358701     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-2666-8_18     Document Type: Chapter

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