Improvement of ciliate identification and quantification: A new protocol for fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) in combination with silver stain techniques

Systematic and Applied Microbiology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 555-571

  Fried, Johannes ^a,b   Ludwig, Wolfgang ^b   Psenner, Roland ^a   Schleifer, Karl Heinz ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

18S rRNA; Ciliophora; Fixation; Glaucoma scintillans; Identification; In situ hybridization; Oligonucleotide probes; Protargol stain; Quantification; Silver nitrate impregnation

Indexed keywords

FORMALDEHYDE; SILVER NITRATE;

ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CILIATE; DNA EXTRACTION; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GLAUCOMA SCINTILLANS; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SILVER STAINING; TETRAHYMENA;

CILIOPHORA; GLAUCOMA SCINTILLANS; PROTOZOA; TETRAHYMENA;

EID: 0036959898     PISSN: 07232020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1078/07232020260517706     Document Type: Article

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