Study of changes in bacterial and viral abundance in formaldehyde-fixed water samples by epifluorescence microscopy

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 177, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 227-231

  Parvathi, Ammini ^a   Radhakrishnan, Seetha ^b   Sajila, M P ^b   Jacob, Breezy ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (India)

^b Nehru Arts and Science College   (India)

Author keywords

Epifluorescence microscopy; Formaldehyde; Marine virus; SYBR Green I

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE MEASUREMENT; BACTERIAL COUNT; COASTAL MARINE ENVIRONMENT; EPIFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MARINE VIRUS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; MICROBIAL COUNT; SAMPLING SITE; STORAGE TEMPERATURES; SYBR GREEN I; WATER SAMPLES;

BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGY; IODINE; VIRUSES;

FORMALDEHYDE;

FORMALDEHYDE;

BACTERIUM; COASTAL WATER; COASTAL ZONE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; FORMALDEHYDE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIOLOGY; SAMPLING; VIRUS;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; ECOSYSTEM; EPIFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; VIRUS COUNT; WATER SAMPLING;

BACTERIA; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; FIXATIVES; FORMALDEHYDE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; SEAWATER; VIRUSES; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 79959718240     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-010-1629-7     Document Type: Article

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