Processing Deep-Sea Particle-Rich Water Samples for Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization: Consideration of Storage Effects, Preservation, and Sonication

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 25-33

  Lam, Phyllis ^a   Cowen, James P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; FILTRATION; FLUORESCENCE; FORMALDEHYDE; FRACTIONATION; OPTIMIZATION; RNA; SAMPLING;

FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION (FISH);

MICROBIOLOGY;

FORMALDEHYDE; PARAFORMALDEHYDE; RIBOSOME RNA;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP SEA; EPIFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPE; FILTRATION; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FREEZING; MATERIALS TESTING; MICROFLORA; NONHUMAN; PELAGIC ZONE; REACTION OPTIMIZATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; ULTRASOUND; WATER SAMPLING;

BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; FORMALDEHYDE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; PARTICLE SIZE; POLYMERS; PRESERVATION, BIOLOGICAL; SEAWATER; SONICATION;

EID: 0347761201     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.1.25-33.2004     Document Type: Article

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