Taming the smallest predators of the oceans

ISME Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 351-358

  Del Campo, Javier ^a   Not, Fabrice ^a,b   Forn, Irene ^a   Sieracki, Michael E ^c   Massana, Ramon ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^b STATION BIOLOGIQUE   (France)

^c BIGELOW LABORATORY FOR OCEAN SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

chlorarachnea; culture; heterotrophic flagellates; isolation; novelty; single cell

Indexed keywords

RNA 18S; SEA WATER;

BACTERIUM; BODY SIZE; COASTAL WATER; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENOMICS; HETEROTROPHY; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROPLANKTON; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PROTIST; SPECIES DIVERSITY; ZOOPLANKTON;

BACTERIUM; CERCOZOA; ECOSYSTEM; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENETICS; HETEROTROPHY; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANKTON; REVIEW;

BACTERIA; CERCOZOA; ECOSYSTEM; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HETEROTROPHIC PROCESSES; PHYLOGENY; PLANKTON; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEAWATER;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); PROKARYOTA; PROTISTA; RHIZARIA;

EID: 84872980144     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2012.85     Document Type: Review

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