Influence of physical disruption on growth of attached bacteria.
Attached bacterial populations cultured without an exogenous carbon source or grown in conjunction with attached diatoms incorporated [H]thymidine at a rate between four and five times lower than that of replicate bacterial populations which were dispersed before being assayed.
Murray
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Department of Microbiology and Department of Biology, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana 59717.
Cooksey
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KE
Priscu
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