Mesozooplankton grazing on picocyanobacteria in the Baltic Sea as inferred from molecular diet analysis.

Our current knowledge on the microbial component of zooplankton diet is limited, and it is generally assumed that bacteria-sized prey is not directly consumed by most mesozooplankton grazers in the marine food webs. We questioned this assumption and conducted field and laboratory studies to examine...

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Main Authors: Nisha H Motwani, Elena Gorokhova
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3832457?pdf=render