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Molecular Probe Optimization to Determine Cell Mortality in a Photosynthetic Organism (Microcystis aeruginosa) Using Flow Cytometry
Published on: January 29, 2016
Effects of flow cytometric analysis on morphology and viability of fragile phytoplankton
E M Haugen1, T L Cucci, C M Yentsch
1Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, West Boothbay Harbor, Maine 04575.
Applied and Environmental Microbiology
|November 1, 1987
Abstract:
We assessed damage done to especially delicate marine phytoplankton cells by passage through a Coulter Epics V flow cytometer. The cells did not distort or lyse after exposure to fluidics or to laser light to 1,000 mW. The cells did sustain damage evidenced by temporary growth rate depressions. The four clones tested eventually resumed control growth rates after growth lags to 48 h.

