Chez Charles/ biblio/ Yellow-stained oikopleurid appendicularians are caused by bacterial parasitism Edit RecentChanges History Preferences Branchable Flood, P. R. MEPS 71:291-295 Yellow-stained oikopleurid appendicularians are caused by bacterial parasitism Rod-shaped (0.6 or 0.4 µm-wide) bacteria observed by transmission and electron microscopy in O. dioica and O. vanhoeffeni