Environmental Factors and Pollution Stresses Select Bacterial Populations in Association With Protists

Digestion-resistant bacteria (DRB) refer to the ecological bacterial group that can be ingested, but not digested by protistan grazers, thus forming a specific type of bacteria-protist association. To test the hypothesis that the environment affects the assembly of DRB in protists, a mixotrophic cil...

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Main Authors: Songbao Zou, Qianqian Zhang, Xiaoli Zhang, Christine Dupuy, Jun Gong
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Marine Science
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmars.2020.00659/full