Eukaryotes of the Cariaco, Soledad, and Santa Barbara Basins: Protists and metazoans associated with deep-water marine sulfide-oxidizing microbial mats and their possible effects on the geologic record

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 379, Issue , 2004, Pages 35-47

  Bernhard, Joan M ^a,c   Buck, Kurt R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Beggiatoa; Cariaco Basin; Ciliate; Flagellate; Foraminifera; Nematode; Polychaete; Santa Barbara Basin; Soledad Basin; Symbiosis; Thioploca

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS;

BEGGIATOA; CARIACO BASINS; CILIATE; FLAGELLATE; FORAMINIFERA; NEMATODE; POLYCHAETE; SANTA BARBARA; SOLEDAD BASIN; SYMBIOSIS; THIOPLOCA;

SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

CILIATE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DOMINANCE; EUKARYOTE; FLAGELLATE; FORAMINIFERA; METAZOAN; MICROBIAL MAT; POLYCHAETE; PROTIST; SULFATE-REDUCING BACTERIUM; SYMBIOSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CALIFORNIA; CARIACO BASIN; CARIBBEAN SEA; PACIFIC OCEAN; SANTA BARBARA BASIN; SOLEDAD BASIN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870900757     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2379-5.35     Document Type: Conference Paper

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