Combination of fluorescent in situ hybridization and microautoradiography - A new tool for structure-function analyses in microbial ecology

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 1289-1297

  Lee, Natuscka ^a   Nielsen, Per Halkjær ^b   Andreasen, Kjær Holm ^c   Juretschko, Stefan ^a   Nielsen, Jeppe Lund ^b   Schleifer, Karl Heinz ^a   Wagner, Michael ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c Kruger AS   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; BICARBONATE; BUTYRIC ACID; GLUCOSE; NITRATE; SODIUM;

BACTERIUM; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FLUORESCENCE; FUNCTIONAL ROLE; METHODOLOGY;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; ISOTOPE LABELING; MICRORADIOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; HERPETOSIPHON AURANTIACUS;

EID: 0032986790     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.3.1289-1297.1999     Document Type: Article

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