Use of microautoradiography combined with fluorescence in situ hybridization to determine dimethylsulfoniopropionate incorporation by marine bacterioplankton taxa

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 4648-4657

  Vila, Maria ^a   Simó, Rafel ^a   Kiene, Ronald P ^c   Pinhassi, Jarone ^a   González, José M ^b,d   Moran, Mary Ann ^d   Pedrós Alió, Carlos ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; CELLS; COASTAL ZONES; FLUORESCENCE; RADIOGRAPHY; SEAWATER; SULFUR;

DIMETHYLSULFONIOPROPIONATE (DMSP); LEUCINE; MICROAUTORADIOGRAPHY (AU); PLANKTONIC HETEROTROPHIC BACTERIA;

MICROBIOLOGY;

DIMETHYLSULFONIOPROPIONATE; LEUCINE; PROPIONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

MICROBIOLOGY;

ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BACTERIOPLANKTON; FLAVOBACTERIUM; FLEXIBACTERACEAE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; MICROANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PHYTOPLANKTON; ROSEOBACTER; SEASHORE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TAXONOMY;

ANIMALS; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; PLANKTON; SEAWATER; SULFONIUM COMPOUNDS; SULFUR RADIOISOTOPES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYTOPHAGA; FLAVOBACTERIUM; FLEXIBACTERACEAE; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; PROTEOBACTERIA; ROSEOBACTER;

EID: 4143090402     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.8.4648-4657.2004     Document Type: Article

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