Exploiting the autofluorescent properties of photosynthetic pigments for analysis of pigmentation and morphology in live Fremyella diplosiphon cells

Sensors

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 6969-6979

  Bordowitz, Juliana R ^a,b   Montgomery, Beronda L ^a,c  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c Michigan State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Autofluorescence; Confocal laser scanning microscopy; Cyanobacteria; Fluorescence imaging; Light; Microscopy; Morphology; Phycobiliproteins

Indexed keywords

AUTOFLUORESCENCE; CONFOCAL LASER SCANNING MICROSCOPY; CYANOBACTERIA; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; PHYCOBILIPROTEINS;

CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; LIGHT; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION;

MORPHOLOGY;

PIGMENT;

ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CYANOBACTERIUM; CYTOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY;

CYANOBACTERIA; FLUORESCENCE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 77957158641     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s100706969     Document Type: Article

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