Evaluating the flow-cytometric nucleic acid double-staining protocol in realistic situations of planktonic bacterial death

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1767-1779

  Falcioni, Tania ^a,b,c   Papa, Stefano ^a   Gasol, Josep M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF URBINO   (Italy)

^b INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOPLANKTON STARVATION; HETEROTROPHIC PROKARYOTES;

BACTERIA; FLOW CYTOMETRY; MICROBIOLOGY;

NUCLEIC ACIDS;

5 CYANO 2,3 DITOLYLTETRAZOLIUM; LEUCINE; NUCLEIC ACID; PROPIDIUM IODIDE; SEA WATER; TETRAZOLIUM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID; AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; BACTERIUM; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CALIBRATION; DETECTION METHOD; FLAGELLATE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HETEROTROPHY; MESOCOSM; MORTALITY; NUCLEIC ACID; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANKTON; SEAWATER; STARVATION; SURVIVAL;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPLANKTON; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; EVALUATION; FLAGELLATE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HETEROTROPHY; MESOCOSM; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PROKARYOTE; STAINING; ULTRAVIOLET C RADIATION;

BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HEAT; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PLANKTON; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEAWATER; TEMPERATURE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTHWEST);

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); PROKARYOTA;

EID: 40849116272     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01668-07     Document Type: Article

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