Automated image analysis and in situ hybridization as tools to study bacterial populations in food resources, gut and cast of Lumbricus terrestris L.

Journal of Microbiological Methods

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 53-68

  Schönholzer, Frank ^a,b   Hahn, Dittmar ^a,c,d   Zarda, Boris ^a,d   Zeyer, Josef ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial size; Bacterial volume; DAPI; Fluorescent probes; Hybridization; Image analysis; In situ; Lumbricus terrestris

Indexed keywords

4',6 DIAMIDINO 2 PHENYLINDOLE; DNA; DYE; RIBOSOME RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM COLONY; BIOMASS; CALCULATION; CAMERA; CELL SIZE; COLOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARTHWORM; FLAVOBACTERIUM; FLEXIBACTERACEAE; FOOD; GENE TARGETING; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTESTINE; LUMBRICUS TERRESTRIS; NONHUMAN; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; PLANT LEAF; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; CARBOCYANINES; ECOSYSTEM; FECES; FLUORESCENT DYES; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INDOLES; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; OLIGOCHAETA; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; STOMACH;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYTOPHAGA; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; FLAVOBACTERIUM; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; LUMBRICUS TERRESTRIS; PHERETIMA SIEBOLDI; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 0036132828     PISSN: 01677012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-7012(01)00345-1     Document Type: Article

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