ectobionts
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Noun[edit]
ectobionts
- plural of ectobiont
- 2015 September 23, “Stable Associations Masked by Temporal Variability in the Marine Copepod Microbiome”, in PLOS ONE[1], :
- 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.