PMID- 22893639 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20140616 LR - 20121203 IS - 0027-5514 (Print) IS - 0027-5514 (Linking) VI - 104 IP - 6 DP - 2012 Nov-Dec TI - Improved detection and identification of aquatic fungi and chitin in aquatic environments. PG - 1267-71 LID - 10.3852/11-225 [doi] AB - Chitin is a polymer of major importance in aquatic environments. We report on a new chitin-staining method for environmental samples. Major advantages of this method are (i) its high specificity and (ii) its suitability for combination with general stains, such as 4',6-diamidino-2-phenylindole (DAPI), or taxa-specific methods, such as fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH). This method lets aquatic mycologists explore basal fungal lineages directly in situ, identify their hosts, occurrence and evolutionary traits. FAU - Wurzbacher, Christian AU - Wurzbacher C AD - Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Dept. Limnology of Stratified Lakes, Stechlin, Germany. FAU - Grossart, Hans-Peter AU - Grossart HP LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20120814 PL - England TA - Mycologia JT - Mycologia JID - 0400764 RN - 0 (Fluorescent Dyes) RN - 0 (Indoles) RN - 1398-61-4 (Chitin) RN - 47165-04-8 (DAPI) SB - IM MH - Biofilms MH - Cell Wall/ultrastructure MH - Chitin/*isolation & purification MH - Fluorescent Dyes MH - Fungi/*isolation & purification/ultrastructure MH - In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence/*methods MH - Indoles MH - Microscopy, Fluorescence MH - Sensitivity and Specificity MH - Sporangia/ultrastructure MH - Yeasts/ultrastructure EDAT- 2012/08/16 06:00 MHDA- 2014/06/17 06:00 CRDT- 2012/08/16 06:00 PHST- 2012/08/16 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2012/08/16 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2014/06/17 06:00 [medline] AID - 11-225 [pii] AID - 10.3852/11-225 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Mycologia. 2012 Nov-Dec;104(6):1267-71. doi: 10.3852/11-225. Epub 2012 Aug 14.