The still poorly explored world of microbial functioning is about to be uncovered by a
combined application of old and new technologies. Bacteria, especially, are still in the dark …

Flow cytometry (FCM) is rapidly becoming an essential tool in the field of aquatic
microbiology. It provides opportunities for microbial analysis at both the community and …

With increasing energy prices and the drive to reduce CO2 emissions, food industries are
challenged to find new technologies in order to reduce energy consumption, to meet legal …

Flow cytometry is rapidly becoming a routine methodology in aquatic microbial ecology. The
combination of simple to use bench-top flow cytometers and highly fluorescent nucleic acid …

The nucleic acid contents of individual bacterial cells as determined with three different
nucleic acid-specific fluorescent dyes (SYBR I, SYBR II, and SYTO 13) and flow cytometry …

Flow cytometry has become a valuable tool in aquatic and environmental microbiology that
combines direct and rapid assays to determine numbers, cell size distribution and additional …

Flow cytometry has revealed the existence of two distinct fractions of bacterioplankton cells,
characterized by high and low nucleic acid contents (HNA and LNA cells). Although these …

Bacterial abundance is a fundamental measure in microbiology, but its assessment is often
tedious, especially for soil, and sediment samples. To overcome this limitation, we adopted a …

In most aquatic bacterial communities, it is possible to discriminate bacterial cells with a high
nucleic acid content (HNA) from those with a low nucleic acid content (LNA) by flow …

Generations of microbiologists have pondered over the issue of bacterial activity and
whether most bacteria in the environment are “active,”“inactive,” or “dormant”(Stevenson …