Ciliate epibionts associated with crustacean zooplankton in German lakes: Distribution, motility, and bacterivory

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 3, Issue JUL, 2012, Pages

  Bickel, Samantha L ^a   Tang, Kam W ^a   Grossart, Hans Peter ^b,c  

^a VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF FRESHWATER ECOLOGY AND INLAND FISHERIES   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bacterivory; Ciliate epibionts; Crustacean zooplankton; Epibiont motility; Epistylis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875776622     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2012.00243     Document Type: Article

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