Skew-Laplace and cell-size distribution in microbial axenic cultures: statistical assessment and biological interpretation

We report a skew-Laplace statistical analysis of both flow cytometry scatters and cell size from microbial strains primarily grown in batch cultures, others in chemostat cultures and bacterial aquatic populations. Cytometry scatters best fit the skew-Laplace distribution while cell size as assessed...

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Autores: Julià de Ferran, Olga, Vidal-Mas, Jaume, Panikov, N. S., Vives-Rego, José
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2010
País:España
Recursos:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
OAI Identifier:oai:recercat.cat:2445/119295
Acesso em linha:https://hdl.handle.net/2445/119295
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Estadística
Citometria de fluxe
Statistics
Flow cytometry
Descrição
Resumo:We report a skew-Laplace statistical analysis of both flow cytometry scatters and cell size from microbial strains primarily grown in batch cultures, others in chemostat cultures and bacterial aquatic populations. Cytometry scatters best fit the skew-Laplace distribution while cell size as assessed by an electronic particle analyzer exhibited a moderate fitting. Unlike the cultures, the aquatic bacterial communities clearly do not fit to a skew-Laplace distribution. Due to its versatile nature, the skew-Laplace distribution approach offers an easy, efficient, and powerful tool for distribution of frequency analysis in tandem with the flow cytometric cell sorting.