| Title: | CellTracker Green labelling vs. Rose Bengal staining: CTG wins by points in distinguishing living from dead anoxia-impacted copepods and nematods |
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| Authors: | ID Grego, Mateja (Author)
ID Stachowitsch, Michael (Author)
ID De Troch, Marleen (Author)
ID Riedel, Bettina (Author) |
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| Language: | English |
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| Typology: | 1.01 - Original Scientific Article |
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| Organization: |  NIB - National Institute of Biology
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| Abstract: | Hypoxia and anoxia have become a key threat to shallow coastal seas. Much is known about their impact on macrofauna, less on meiofauna. In an attempt to shed more light on the latter group, in particular from a process-oriented view, we experimentally induced short-term anoxia (1 week) in the northern Adriatic Sea (Mediterranean) and examined the two most abundant meiofauna taxa – harpacticoid copepods and nematodes. Both taxa also represent different ends of the tolerance spectrum, with copepods being the most sensitive and nematodes among the most tolerant. We compared two methods: CellTracker Green (CTG) – new labelling approach for meiofauna – with the traditional rose bengal (RB) staining method. CTG binds to active enzymes and therefore colours live organisms only. The two methods show considerable differences in the number of living and dead individuals of both meiofauna taxa. Generally, RB will stain dead but not yet decomposed copepods and nematodes equally as it does live ones. Specifically, RB significantly overestimated the number of living copepods in all sediment layers in anoxic samples, but not in any normoxic samples. In contrast, for nematodes, the methods did not show such a clear difference between anoxia and normoxia. RB overestimated the number of living nematodes in the top sediment layer of normoxic samples, which implies an overestimation of the overall live nematofauna. For monitoring and biodiversity studies, the RB method might be sufficient, but for more precise quantification of community degradation, especially after an oxygen depletion event, CTG labelling is a better tool. Moreover, it clearly highlights the surviving species within the copepod or nematode community. As already accepted for foraminiferal research, we demonstrate that the CTG labelling is also valid for other meiofauna groups. |
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| Keywords: | morje, plankton, kopepodi, živalski plankton, trofični status, morski plankton, CTG, CellTracker Green |
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| Publication status: | Published |
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| Publication version: | Version of Record |
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| Publication date: | 09.07.2013 |
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| Year of publishing: | 2013 |
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| Number of pages: | str. 4565-4575 |
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| Numbering: | Vol. 10, no. 7 |
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| PID: | 20.500.12556/DiRROS-20017  |
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| UDC: | 574 |
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| ISSN on article: | 1726-4170 |
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| DOI: | 10.5194/bg-10-4565-2013 |
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| COBISS.SI-ID: | 2809423 |
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| Note: | Izv. znanstv. članek;
Predčasna objava DOI v BGD februarja 2013, BG jul. 2013; končna objava v BG dne 10. julija 2013;
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| Publication date in DiRROS: | 02.08.2024 |
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