A staining method to determine marine microplanktonic organism viability and investigate the efficacy of a ship's ballast water treatment system
선박평형수 처리장치 효율 검증을 위한 해양미소부유생물 생사판별기법

Seung Ho Baek, kyoungsoon Shin
2015 Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society  
We determined a method to determine marine planktonic organism viability using Evan's blue, Aniline blue, and 5-choromethyfluorescein diacetate (CMFDA). The Evan's blue and Aniline blue methods produced bright blue light for dead phytoplankton and zooplankton and were the best dyes to detect dead cells. The staining efficiency of Evan's blue and Aniline blue were ≥ 90% of the original field sample. However, it was difficult to test the efficiency of a ship's ballast water treatment system
more » ... e detection of living cells. In contrast, the CMFDA method, which is based on measuring cell esterase activity using a fluorimetric stain, was the best dye to detect live cells of almost all phytoplankton species, and staining efficiency was 70%. The CMFDA method is similar to the fluorescein diacetate (FDA) staining method. Therefore, we estimated viability of phytoplankton species using a double-staining method by combining CMFDA and FDA to determine optimum staining efficiency. As a result, the frequency of dying cells based on the double-staining method was 95%, which was significantly higher than that of single CMDFA staining. Our results suggest that a CMDFA + FDA assay is more effective to determine survival of marine plankton and that this method was applicable to investigate the efficacy of a ship's ballast water treatment system.
doi:10.5762/kais.2015.16.6.4328 fatcat:pydezquyznaonn4y4sadmepw3u