Effect of signal compounds and incubation conditions on the culturability of freshwater bacterioplankton

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1980-1989

  Bruns, Alke ^a   Nübel, Ulrich ^b   Cypionka, Heribert ^a   Overmann, Jörg ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE DSMZ GERMAN COLLECTION OF MICROORGANISMS AND CELL CULTURES   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; FLUORESCENCE; GENES; OXYGEN; PARTIAL PRESSURE; RNA;

CULTURABILITY;

MICROBIOLOGY;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CYCLIC AMP; LACTONE DERIVATIVE; N (BUTYRYL)HOMOSERINE LACTONE; N (OXOHEXANOYL)HOMOSERINE LACTONE; RNA 16S; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIOPLANKTON; GROWTH; LABORATORY METHOD;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIOPLANKTON; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; RNA GENE;

4-BUTYROLACTONE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANIMALS; BACTERIA; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CULTURE MEDIA; CYCLIC AMP; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FRESH WATER; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXYGEN; PHYLOGENY; PLANKTON; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TEMPERATURE;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); ACTINOMYCETALES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; NEGIBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0242684409     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.4.1980-1989.2003     Document Type: Article

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