Meanings
noun
- pluralplural of ectobiont
Some Pseudoalteromonas spp. have chitinases [38 ], which could provide a carbon source from the copepod exoskeleton, as is the case for many Vibrio spp., however our methods cannot distinguish whether the detected bacteria were present as endo- or ectobionts on the copepods.
2015 September 23, “Stable Associations Masked by Temporal Variability in the Marine Copepod Microbiome”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
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