Suitability of flow cytometry for estimating bacterial biovolume in natural plankton samples: Comparison with microscopy data

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 4508-4514

  Felip, Marisol ^a   Andreatta, Stefan ^b   Sommaruga, Ruben ^c   Straskrábová, Viera ^d   Catalan, Jordi ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b Synedra Information Technologies   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^d INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BIOMASS; CELLS; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; LINEAR REGRESSION; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

BACTERIAL ABUNDANCE; BACTERIOPLANKTON SAMPLES; MICROSCOPY DATA; NATURAL PLANKTON SAMPLES;

FLOW CYTOMETRY;

ABUNDANCE; BACTERIUM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DETECTION METHOD; ESTIMATION METHOD; FLOW CYTOMETRY; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; PLANKTON; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; VOLUME;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIOLOGY; BACTERIOPLANKTON; BIOMASS; EPIFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; NONHUMAN;

BIOMASS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FRESH WATER; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PLANKTON;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 34547211796     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00733-07     Document Type: Article

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