Visualizing bacteria in nematodes using fluorescent microscopy

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 68, 2012, Pages

  Murfin, Kristen E ^a   Chaston, John ^a   Goodrich Blair, Heidi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Bacteriology; Colonization; Developmental biology; Fluorescence microscopy; Issue 68; Microbiology; Molecular biology; Nematode; Steinernema; Symbiosis; Xenorhabdus

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868286259     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/4298     Document Type: Article

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