Activity and diversity of bacterial cells with high and low nucleic acid content

Aquatic Microbial Ecology

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 41-51

  Servais, Pierre ^a   Casamayor, Emilio O ^b,c   Courties, Claude ^b   Catala, Philippe ^b   Parthuisot, Nathalie ^b   Lebaron, Philippe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c CENTRE D ESTUDIS AVANÇATS DE BLANES CEAB CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cell sorting; Cellular activity; Flow cytometry; Genetic diversity; Nucleic acid content; Side scatter; Single strand conformation polymorphism

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0141564998     PISSN: 09483055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/ame033041     Document Type: Article

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