Imaging and quantifying virus fluorescence signals on aquatic aggregates: A new method and its implication for aquatic microbial ecology

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 372-380

  Luef, Birgit ^a   Neu, Thomas R ^b   Peduzzi, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aggregate; Confocal laser scanning microscopy; Extracellular polymeric substances; Glycoconjugate; River; Virus

Indexed keywords

FLUOROCHROME;

ABUNDANCE; AGGREGATE; AQUATIC COMMUNITY; COLONIZATION; FLUORESCENCE; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; VIRUS;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; EPIFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRASOUND;

BACTERIA; FLUORESCENCE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; SOFTWARE; VIRUSES; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

DANUBE RIVER; EURASIA; EUROPE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 65549085365     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2009.00675.x     Document Type: Article

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