Prevalence of partnerships between bacteria and ciliates in oxygen-depleted marine water columns

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 3, Issue SEP, 2012, Pages

  Orsi, William ^a   Charvet, Sophie ^b   Vd'ačný, Peter ^c   Bernhard, Joan M ^a   Edgcomb, Virginia P ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Anoxic; CARD FISH; Ciliate; Hypersaline; OMZ; rRNA; SEM; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875868879     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2012.00341     Document Type: Article

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