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Digestive enzyme activity as a quantitative measure of protistan grazing: the acid lysozyme assay for bacterivory

Marine Ecology Progress Series (1993) 100(1-2) 197-206
DOI: 10.3354/meps100197
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Proposes quantification of the activity of digestive enzymes as a novel way to estimate rates of protist grazing in natural waters. First application of this approach was determination of protistan bacterivory by assaying the activity of lysozyme at acid pH. -from Authors

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Gonzalez, J. M., Sherr, B. F., & Sherr, E. B. (1993). Digestive enzyme activity as a quantitative measure of protistan grazing: the acid lysozyme assay for bacterivory. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 100(1–2), 197–206. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps100197

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