Heterotrophic bacteria in the pelagic realm of the Mediterranean Sea

Life in the Mediterranean Sea: A Look at Habitat Changes

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 227-265

  Pulido Villena, Elvira ^a,c   Ghiglione, Jean François ^b   Ortega Retuerta, Eva ^b   Van Wambeke, France ^c   Zohary, Tamar ^d  

^a LABORATOIRE D OCÉANOGRAPHIE DE VILLEFRANCHE   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE ARAGO   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d ISRAEL OCEANOGRAPHIC AND LIMNOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Israel)

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