Evaluating the Flow-Cytometric Nucleic Acid Double-Staining Protocol in Realistic Situations of Planktonic Bacterial Death▿

• Published in: Applied and Environmental Microbiology
• Main Authors: Falcioni, Tania, Papa, Stefano, Gasol, Josep M.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: American Society for Microbiology (ASM) 2008
• Subjects: Methods; Labra; Northwest Atlantic
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2268295; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18223113; https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.01668-07

Since heterotrophic prokaryotes play an important biogeochemical role in aquatic ecosystems and have a high capacity to survive in extreme environments, easy-to-perform protocols that probe their physiological states and the effects of environmental variables on those states are highly desired. Some...