Use of green fluorescent protein as a marker for ecological studies of active sludge communities

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 149, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 77-83

  Eberl, Leo ^a   Schulze, Renate ^a   Ammendola, Aldo ^a   Geisenberger, Otto ^a   Erhart, Robert ^a   Sternberg, Claus ^b   Molin, Søren ^b   Amann, Rudolf ^c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Activated sludge; Green fluorescent protein; In situ hybridization; Protozoan grazing

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPOSON;

EID: 0030890090     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(97)00058-X     Document Type: Article

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