Identification of the class prymnesiophyceae and the genus phaeocystis with ribosomal RNA-targeted nucleic acid probes detected by flow cytometry

Journal of Phycology

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 858-868

  Lange, Martin ^a   Guillou, Laure ^b   Vaulot, Daniel ^b   Simon, Nathalie ^c   Amann, Rudolf I ^d   Ludwig, Wolfgang ^d   Medlin, Linda K ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b STATION BIOLOGIQUE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Epifluorescence microscopy; Flow cytometry; Oligonucleotide probes; Phaeocystis; Phytoplankton; Prymnesiophyceae

Indexed keywords

PHAEOCYSTIS;

EID: 0030443210     PISSN: 00223646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-3646.1996.00858.x     Document Type: Article

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