ABSTRACT
Natural Environment Research Council, Institute for Marine Environmental Research, The Hoe, Plymouth, U.K.
and R.J.MORRIS
Institute of Oceanographic Sciences, Wormley, Godalming, Surrey, U.K.
Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. Ann. Rev.. 1982, 20, 65-118 Margaret Barnes, Ed. Aberdeen University Press
INTRODUCTION
The study of bacteria in the sea has two historical origins. The first is classical bacteriology which developed from the work and philosophy of Robert Koch and involves isolating a bacterium, growing it in axenic culture and identifying it by a series of determinative tests. The second origin is the more recent approach of marine biologists who have studied the rate of a process such as primary production, without being particularly concerned with identifying the organism involved.
