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Jennifer L Beatty1, Brittany P Stewart1, Kendra A Turk-Kubo2

  • 1Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States.

Frontiers in microbiology
|December 22, 2025
PubMed
まとめ

微生物によるピコプランクトン摂食速度測定のための2つの一般的な方法が評価された。両方とも実験室試験で餌の死亡率を過小評価し、希釈法は蛍光標識細菌よりも変動が少なかった。現場の結果は、方法間に大きな乖離を示した。

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