Dynamic phase microscopy, a new method to detect viable and killed spores and to estimate the heterogeneity of spore populations

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1678-1685

  Tychinsky, Vladimir P ^a   Mulyukin, Andrey L ^b   Lisovskii, Vitalii V ^a   Nikolaev, Yury A ^b   Kretushev, Aleksander V ^a   Vyshenskaya, Tatyana V ^a   Suzina, Nataliya E ^c   Duda, Vitalii I ^c   El Registan, Galina I ^b  

^a MIREA RUSSIAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b WINOGRADSKY INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^c SKRYABIN INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF MICROORGANISMS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Bacillus licheniformis; Dynamic phase microscopy; Endospore; Germination; Novel microscopy method; Phase thickness; Spore germination

Indexed keywords

CELLS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMAGE RECORDING; NUTRIENTS; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

BACILLUS LICHENIFORMIS; DYNAMIC PHASE MICROSCOPY (DPM); ENDOSPORE; GERMINATION; NOVEL MICROSCOPY METHOD; PHASE THICKNESS; SPORE GERMINATION;

MICROORGANISMS;

EID: 35648979543     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2007.03.090     Document Type: Article

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