Spore dipicolinic acid contents used for estimating the number of endospores in sediments

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 522-532

  Fichtel, Jörg ^a   Köster, Jürgen ^a   Rullkötter, Jürgen ^a   Sass, Henrik ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Deep biosphere; Dormant cells; Endospore quantification; Terbium dipicolinate fluorescence

Indexed keywords

DIPICOLINIC ACID; TERBIUM;

CHELATE; DORMANCY; FLUOROMETRY; HUMIC SUBSTANCE; SEDIMENT CORE; SPORE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOSPORE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE; FLUOROMETRY; HUMIC SUBSTANCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PASTEURIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTIC CELL; SEDIMENT;

BACTERIA; FLUOROMETRY; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; PICOLINIC ACIDS; SPORES, BACTERIAL; TERBIUM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA;

EID: 34547840260     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2007.00354.x     Document Type: Article

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