Protists are key components of the microbial food web in pelagic marine systems by linking algal and bacterial production to higher trophic levels, but their functioning and vertical distribution in b
We created a mock community of common free-living soil protists (amoebae, flagellates, ciliates), extracted DNA and amplified it in the presence of metazoan DNA using 454 HTS. We aimed at evaluating w
Protists are key components of the microbial food web in pelagic marine systems by linking algal and bacterial production to higher trophic levels, but their functioning and vertical distribution in b