Progress of Flow Cytometric Measurement on Membrane System Alteration of Unicellular Microorganisms in Toxicological Study

摘要

Being one of the most important parts of ecosystem, microorganism is always the focus in ecotoxicological studies. On the other hand, flow cytometry has been proved as a valuable and powerful tool in microorganism studies for its outstanding ability in directly and rapid demonstration and quantification of both characterics of unicell and population heterogeneity in a community. (Rego et al., 2000) Flow cytometry has only recently been applied to ecotoxicological studies (Yu Y and Kong FX, 2006), but it greatly promotes the progress of toxicological techniques (Li Z et al., 2004).This paper will review the recent progress in the research on microorganism membrane system by flow cytometry in ecotoxicological studies.