Development and application of a monoclonal-antibody technique for counting Aureococcus anophagefferens, an alga causing recurrent brown tides in the Mid-Atlantic United States

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 5492-5502

  Caron, David A ^a   Dennett, Mark R ^b   Moran, Dawn M ^b   Schaffner, Rebecca A ^a   Lonsdale, Darcy J ^c   Gobler, Christopher J ^d   Nuzzi, Robert ^e   McLean, Tim I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Bureau of Marine Resources   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODIES; ENZYMES; FLUORESCENCE;

MONOCLONAL-ANTIBODY;

MICROBIOLOGY;

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; ALGAL BLOOM; BROWN TIDE; DETECTION METHOD; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; IMMUNOASSAY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ACCURACY; ALGA; ALGAL BLOOM; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUREOCOCCUS ANOPHAGEFFEREN; BACTERIUM; BROWN TIDE; CELL COUNT; COLORIMETRY; CROSS REACTION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; ESTUARY; FEMALE; MICROTITER PLATE ASSAY; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLANKTON COUNTER; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

ALGAE, BROWN; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BACTERIA; CELL COUNT; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROSCOPY, INTERFERENCE; MID-ATLANTIC REGION; PROTOZOA; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

UNITED STATES;

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; AUREOCOCCUS ANOPHAGEFFERENS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROTISTA;

EID: 0042667813     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.9.5492-5502.2003     Document Type: Article

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