Estimates of bacterial production using the leucine incorporation method are influenced by differences in protein retention of microcentrifuge tubes

Limnology and Oceanography: Methods

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 55-61

  Pace, Michael L ^a   Del Giorgio, Paul ^b   Fischer, David ^a   Condon, Robert ^b,c   Malcom, Heather ^a  

^a CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

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BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 33646571888     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15415856     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lom.2004.2.55     Document Type: Article

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