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Prey-Specific Growth Responses of Freshwater Flagellate Communities Induced by Morphologically Distinct Bacteria from the Genus Limnohabitans by Grujcic, Vesna, Kasalicky, Vojtech, Simek, Karel

“…Because their large growth potential is counterbalanced with grazing by heterotrophic nanoflagellates (HNF), bacteria of the genus Limnohabitans, which are…”
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Methane distribution and methane oxidation in the water column of the Elbe estuary, Germany by Matoušů, Anna, Osudar, Roman, Šimek, Karel, Bussmann, Ingeborg

“…The River Elbe, as one of the major waterways of central Europe, is a potential source of high amounts of methane into the North Sea. Twelve sampling cruises…”
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Cryptophyta as major bacterivores in freshwater summer plankton by Grujcic, Vesna, Nuy, Julia K, Salcher, Michaela M, Shabarova, Tanja, Kasalicky, Vojtech, Boenigk, Jens, Jensen, Manfred, Simek, Karel

“…Small bacterivorous eukaryotes play a cardinal role in aquatic food webs and their taxonomic classification is currently a hot topic in aquatic microbial…”
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Limnohabitans planktonicus sp. nov. and Limnohabitans parvus sp. nov., planktonic betaproteobacteria isolated from a freshwater reservoir, and emended description of the genus Limnohabitans by KASALICKY, Vojtech, JEZBERA, Jan, SIMEK, Karel, HAHN, Martin W

“…Two bacterial strains, II-B4(T) and II-D5(T), isolated from the meso-eutrophic freshwater Římov reservoir (Czech Republic), were characterized phenotypically,…”
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Determining lineage-specific bacterial growth curves with a novel approach based on amplicon reads normalization using internal standard (ARNIS) by Piwosz, Kasia, Shabarova, Tanja, Tomasch, Jürgen, Šimek, Karel, Kopejtka, Karel, Kahl, Silke, Pieper, Dietmar H., Koblížek, Michal

“…The growth rate is a fundamental characteristic of bacterial species, determining its contributions to the microbial community and carbon flow. High-throughput…”
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Seasonal strengths of the abiotic and biotic drivers of a zooplankton community by Gabaldón, Carmen, Devetter, Miloslav, Hejzlar, Josef, Šimek, Karel, Znachor, Petr, Nedoma, Jiří, Seďa, Jaromir

“…Multiple factors operate simultaneously and interact in complex ways to shape community assembly. Understanding the organisation of communities including…”
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Unveiling distribution patterns of freshwater phytoplankton by a next generation sequencing based approach by Eiler, Alexander, Drakare, Stina, Bertilsson, Stefan, Pernthaler, Jakob, Peura, Sari, Rofner, Carina, Simek, Karel, Yang, Yang, Znachor, Petr, Lindström, Eva S

“…The recognition and discrimination of phytoplankton species is one of the foundations of freshwater biodiversity research and environmental monitoring. This…”
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The Green Tetrahymena utriculariae n. sp. (Ciliophora, Oligohymenophorea) with Its Endosymbiotic Algae (Micractinium sp.), Living in Traps of a Carnivorous Aquatic Plant by Pitsch, Gianna, Adamec, Lubomír, Dirren, Sebastian, Nitsche, Frank, Šimek, Karel, Sirová, Dagmara, Posch, Thomas

“…The genus Tetrahymena (Ciliophora, Oligohymenophorea) probably represents the best studied ciliate genus. At present, more than forty species have been…”
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Methane dynamics in a large river: a case study of the Elbe River by Matoušů, Anna, Rulík, Martin, Tušer, Michal, Bednařík, Adam, Šimek, Karel, Bussmann, Ingeborg

“…We conducted multiple small (2011–2012) and one large sampling campaign (2013) at selected profiles along the Elbe River. With the data we were able to outline…”
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Interspecific competition and protistan grazing affect the coexistence of freshwater betaproteobacterial strains by Salcher, Michaela M., Ewert, Claudia, Šimek, Karel, Kasalický, Vojtěch, Posch, Thomas

“…The competitive strength of four cosmopolitan freshwater betaproteobacterial isolates was investigated in the presence or absence of bacterivorous flagellates…”
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Ecological Traits of the Algae‐Bearing Tetrahymena utriculariae (Ciliophora) from Traps of the Aquatic Carnivorous Plant Utricularia reflexa by Šimek, Karel, Pitsch, Gianna, Salcher, Michaela M., Sirová, Dagmara, Shabarova, Tanja, Adamec, Lubomír, Posch, Thomas

“…Trap fluid of aquatic carnivorous plants of the genus Utricularia hosts specific microbiomes consisting of commensal pro‐ and eukaryotes of largely unknown…”
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Aggregate formation in a freshwater bacterial strain induced by growth state and conspecific chemical cues by Blom, Judith F, Horňák, Karel, Šimek, Karel, Pernthaler, Jakob

“…We investigated the induction of aggregate formation in the freshwater bacterium Sphingobium sp. strain Z007 by growth state and protistan grazing. Dialysis…”
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Prey selectivity of bacterivorous protists in different size fractions of reservoir water amended with nutrients by Jezbera, Jan, Horňák, Karel, Šimek, Karel

“…Summary An experiment designed to examine food preferences of heterotrophic nanoflagellates (HNF) grazing on bacterioplankton was performed in the freshwater…”
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Effect of River Water Circulation on the Distribution and Functioning of Reservoir Microbial Communities as Determined by a Relative Distance Approach by Šimek, Karel, Comerma, Marta, García, Juan-Carlos, Nedoma, Jiří, Marcé, Rafael, Armengol, Joan

“…The effect of river water quality, its inflow rate, and temperature on planktonic food web composition and activities were studied in the eutrophic Sau…”
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Grazer and virus-induced mortality of bacterioplankton accelerates development of Flectobacillus populations in a freshwater community by Šimek, Karel, Weinbauer, Markus G, Hornák, Karel, Jezbera, Jan, Nedoma, Jiři, Dolan, John R

“…We present a detailed analysis of the effects of distinct bacterial mortality factors, viral lysis and heterotrophic nanoflagellates (HNF) bacterivory,…”
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Aerobic Anoxygenic Photosynthesis Is Commonly Present within the Genus Limnohabitans by Kasalický, Vojtěch, Zeng, Yonghui, Piwosz, Kasia, Šimek, Karel, Kratochvilová, Hana, Koblížek, Michal

“…The genus ( , ) is a common and a highly active component of freshwater bacterioplanktonic communities. To date, the genus has been considered to contain only…”
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The diversity of the Limnohabitans genus, an important group of freshwater bacterioplankton, by characterization of 35 isolated strains by Kasalický, Vojtěch, Jezbera, Jan, Hahn, Martin W, Šimek, Karel

“…Bacteria of the genus Limnohabitans, more precisely the R-BT lineage, have a prominent role in freshwater bacterioplankton communities due to their high rates…”
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Microbial food webs in hypertrophic fishponds: Omnivorous ciliate taxa are major protistan bacterivores by Šimek, Karel, Grujčić, Vesna, Nedoma, Jiří, Jezberová, Jitka, Šorf, Michal, Matoušů, Anna, Pechar, Libor, Posch, Thomas, Bruni, Estelle P., Vrba, Jaroslav

“…Despite the importance of shallow lakes worldwide, knowledge of microbial components, the base of their food webs, remains scarce. To close this gap, we…”
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Broad Habitat Range of the Phylogenetically Narrow R-BT065 Cluster, Representing a Core Group of the Betaproteobacterial Genus Limnohabitans by Šimek, Karel, Kasalický, Vojtěch, Jezbera, Jan, Jezberová, Jitka, Hahn, Martin W.

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Assessing Niche Separation among Coexisting Limnohabitans Strains through Interactions with a Competitor, Viruses, and a Bacterivore by Šimek, Karel, Kasalický, Vojtěch, Horňák, Karel, Hahn, Martin W., Weinbauer, Markus G.

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