Unusual bloom of star-like prosthecate bacteria and filaments as a consequence of grazing pressure
- 1 March 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Microbial Ecology
- Vol. 17 (2), 137-141
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02011848
Abstract
In seawater used for shrimp aquaculture in French Polynesia, the grazing of small bacteria (rods and coccoids) allowed the growth ofAncalomicrobium cells (to more than 2×106 cells ml−1) and large filaments > 10μm in length (5×106 cells ml−1). Their contribution to the increase in total bacterial number after grazing was 27.8 and 9.8%, respectively. These large bacteria are not grazed on by microflagellates, but are available for mesoplankton larvae.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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