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Monday, February 21, 2005
Alldredge, 1993
Alldredge et al. [1993] provided the first pretty cool pics of TEP stained by Alcian Blue. Additionally, they found 24-68% of the bacteria in the samples to be entrained within TEP which only became evident after staining. Furthermore, only 5% of the bacteria in their samples we free-floating. EDTA used to break flocs apart which identified cation bridging as one of the main adhesive forces of TEP. They cite Gordon[1970] and Emery et al. [1984] as the early pioneers of the TEP explorations. TEP most abundant during Diatom blooms although all plankton secrete polysaccharides. They also cite the following papers as having documented the process of exoplymer/colloid formation in freshwater (Leppard et al. [1977], Massalski and Leppard [1979] ).
- posted by alex @ 18:33
