Evaluation of a fluorescent lectin-based staining technique for some acidophilic mining bacteria

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 2208-2210

  Fife, Dee Jay ^a   Bruhn, Debby F ^a   Miller, Karen S ^a   Stoner, Daphne L ^a  

^a IDAHO NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACIDITHIOBACILLUS THIOOXIDANS; ARTICLE; MINING; NONHUMAN; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOIL;

ACETOBACTERACEAE; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; IRON; ISOTHIOCYANATES; LECTINS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MINING; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOIL; SULFIDES; SULFOLOBUS; THIOBACILLUS;

ACIDITHIOBACILLUS THIOOXIDANS; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; THIOBACILLUS; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 0034058044     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.66.5.2208-2210.2000     Document Type: Article

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