Filter Plating Method for Rendering Picocyanobacteria Cultures Free of Heterotrophic Bacterial Contaminants and Clonal

Isolates of the marine picocyanobacteria, Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus, are often accompanied by diverse heterotrophic “contaminating” bacteria, which can act as confounding variables in otherwise controlled experiments. Traditional microbiological methods for eliminating contaminants, such as...

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Main Authors: Sean M. Kearney, Allison Coe, Kurt G. Castro, Sallie W. Chisholm
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2022.821803/full