Efficient selective breeding of live oil-rich Euglena gracilis with fluorescence-activated cell sorting

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Yamada, Koji ^a   Suzuki, Hideyuki ^a   Takeuchi, Takuto ^a   Kazama, Yusuke ^b   Mitra, Sharbanee ^a   Abe, Tomoko ^b   Goda, Keisuke ^c,d,e   Suzuki, Kengo ^a   Iwata, Osamu ^a  

^a Euglena Co   (Japan)

^b RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerated Based Science   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOFUEL;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; EUGLENA GRACILIS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LIPID METABOLISM; METABOLISM; MICROALGA; MUTATION; PROCEDURES;

BIOFUELS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; EUGLENA GRACILIS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; LIPID METABOLISM; MICROALGAE; MUTATION;

EID: 84971367856     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep26327     Document Type: Article

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