Metabolic activity of bacterioplankton communities assessed by flow cytometry and single carbon substrate utilization

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 136, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 213-225

  Jellett, Joanne F ^a,b   Li, William K W ^a   Dickie, Paul M ^a   Boraie, Azmeralda ^a   Kepkay, Paul E ^a  

^a BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Canada)

^b INNOVAcorp ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

Biolog; Cell cycle; Flow cytometry; Nucleic acid content; TO PRO(TM); Tritiated leucine; Tritiated thymidine

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0029835177     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps136213     Document Type: Article

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