FIG. 6.

FISH of fixed cells detached mechanically from straw incubated for 8 days in soil slurries. Three 16S rDNA probes were used simultaneously. CY5-labeled bacterial-domain probe Eub338 (blue) was used together with CY3-labeled probe Clost XIVa (red), specific for parts of clostridial cluster XIVa, and FITC-labeled probe Clost XIVa-c (green), designed from 16S rDNA sequence data (clones RSa32 and RSb40). The overlay of probes Eub338 and Clost XIVa resulted in pink cells; the overlay of Eub338 and Clost XIVa-c resulted in green-to-turquoise cells. The number of cells hybridized simultaneously with the group-specific probes Clost XIVa and Clost XIVa-c (resulting in white cells) was less then 1% of all Eub338-detected cells. Scale bars, 5 μm.