Development Of A Fatty Acid And RNA stable isotope probing-based method for tracking protist grazing on bacteria in wastewater

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 24, 2010, Pages 8222-8230

  Kuppardt, Steffen ^a   Chatzinotas, Antonis ^a   Kästner, Matthias ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOYANT DENSITY; CARBON TURNOVER; CELL DIVISIONS; DIE-OFF; E. COLI; INGESTION RATE; LARGE SHIFTS; MASS BALANCE; METHODICAL APPROACH; MODEL EXPERIMENTS; PATHOGENIC BACTERIUM; PROTIST CELLS; REAL-TIME PCR; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; STABLE-ISOTOPE PROBING; TEMPORAL PATTERN; YIELD ESTIMATION;

ATOMS; BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGY; CELL PROLIFERATION; ECOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ISOTOPES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; SORPTION; VIRUSES; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

FATTY ACIDS;

CARBON; FATTY ACID; PROTOZOAL RNA; WATER;

BACTERIUM; BIOMASS; CARBON; FATTY ACID; MASS BALANCE; MICROCOSM; PATHOGENICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REAL TIME; STABLE ISOTOPE; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; OLIGOHYMENOPHOREA; PARASITOLOGY; STAINING; WATER MANAGEMENT;

CARBON ISOTOPES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FATTY ACIDS; OLIGOHYMENOPHOREA; RNA, PROTOZOAN; STAINING AND LABELING; WATER; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER PURIFICATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CILIOPHORA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROTISTA; URONEMA (CILIATA);

EID: 78650326886     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01632-10     Document Type: Article

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