Assessment of the effects of nutrients and pollutants on coastal bacterioplankton by flow cytometry and SYTO-13 staining

Microbios

Volumn 98, Issue 390, 1999, Pages 71-85

  Vives Rego, J ^a   Guindulain, T ^a   Vazquez Dominguez, E ^b   Gasol, J M ^b   Lopez Amoros R ^a   Vaque D ^b   Comas, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bacterioplankton; Flow cytometry; Nutrients; Pollutants

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033457548     PISSN: 00262633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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