Schrödinger’s microbes: Tools for distinguishing the living from the dead in microbial ecosystems

Schrödinger’s microbes: Tools for distinguishing the living from the dead in microbial ecosystems

Abstract While often obvious for macroscopic organisms, determining whether a microbe is dead or alive is fraught with complications. Fields such as microbial ecology, environmental health, and medical microbiology each determine how best to assess which members of the microbial community are alive,...

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Main Authors: Joanne B. Emerson, Rachel I. Adams, Clarisse M. Betancourt Román, Brandon Brooks, David A. Coil, Katherine Dahlhausen, Holly H. Ganz, Erica M. Hartmann, Tiffany Hsu, Nicholas B. Justice, Ivan G. Paulino-Lima, Julia C. Luongo, Despoina S. Lymperopoulou, Cinta Gomez-Silvan, Brooke Rothschild-Mancinelli, Melike Balk, Curtis Huttenhower, Andreas Nocker, Parag Vaishampayan, Lynn J. Rothschild
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-08-01
Series:Microbiome
Subjects:
DNA sequencing
Flow cytometry
Infectivity
Live/dead
Low biomass
Metagenomics
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40168-017-0285-3

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