Improved methodology for identification of protists and microalgae from plankton samples preserved in Lugol's iodine solution: Combining microscopic analysis with single-cell PCR

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2505-2510

  Auinger, Barbara M ^a   Pfandl, Karin ^a   Boenigk, Jens ^a  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE ENCODING; RNA;

CELL DISRUPTION; FRAGILE CELLS; MICROSCOPIC SCREENING; VISCOZYME;

PHYTOPLANKTON;

DNA FRAGMENT; LUGOL; PROTEINASE K; SODIUM THIOSULFATE;

FLAGELLATE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOTYPE; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; IODINE; MICROALGA; MICROSCOPY; PLANKTON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL WALL; DINOBRYON BAVARICUM; DINOBRYON DIVERGENS; DINOBRYON PEDIFORME; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; MICROALGA; MICROBIAL IDENTIFICATION; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OCHROMONAS; PLANKTON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTISTAN COMMUNITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RNA GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SYNURA SPHAGNICOLA;

ALGAE; ANIMALS; DNA, ALGAL; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FIXATIVES; GENOTYPE; IODIDES; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANKTON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

DINOBRYON BAVARICUM; DINOBRYON DIVERGENS; DINOBRYON PEDIFORME; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); OCHROMONAS; PROTISTA; SYNURA SPHAGNICOLA;

EID: 42349111816     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01803-07     Document Type: Article

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