Live sorting and survival of unstained and DAPI-stained ciliates by flow cytometry

Archiv fur Hydrobiologie

Volumn 157, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 173-184

  Lindström, Eva S ^a,b   Stadler, Peter ^a   Weisse, Thomas ^a  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Ciliates; DAPI; DNA stain; Flow cytometry; Live sorting

Indexed keywords

CILIATE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; SORTING; SURVIVAL;

CASTALIA; CILIOPHORA; COLEPS; PROSTOMATIDA; PROTOZOA; UROTRICHA; VISCUM; VISCUM ALBUM;

EID: 0038799734     PISSN: 00039136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0003-9136/2003/0157-0173     Document Type: Article

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