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The identification of microorganisms by fluorescence in situ hybridisation
R Amann1, B M Fuchs, S Behrens
1Molecular Ecology Group, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Celsiusstrasse 1, D-28359, Bremen, Germany. ramann@mpi-bremen.de
Current Opinion in Biotechnology
|June 19, 2001
Abstract:
Fluorescence in situ hybridisation (FISH) with rRNA-targeted oligonucleotide probes facilitates the rapid and specific identification of individual microbial cells in their natural environments. Over the past year there have been a number of methodological developments in this area and new applications of FISH in microbial ecology and biotechnology have been reported.