Effects of long-term sample storage on the detection of bacterial cells using fluorescence in situ hybridization

Limnology and Oceanography: Methods

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 379-383

  Keats, Kimberley F ^a   Rivkin, Richard B ^a   Hale, Michelle S ^b   Schneider, David C ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYTOPHAGA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 44649094537     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15415856     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lom.2007.5.379     Document Type: Article

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