Don Button

Don Button

Professor Emeritus

Biological Oceanography


5160 Sand Lake Road
Webster, WI 45893
715-866-4999
dkbutton@alaska.edu

 

Publications

Button, D K; Robertson B., Gustafson, E. and Zhao, X. (2004). "The experimental and mathematical foundation of specific affinity, a cytoarchitecture-based theory for replacing the Michaelis Menten paradigm". Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 70:5511-5521.

Perney, G, Robertson, B.R., and Button, D.K. (2004). "Methods in molecular biology. DNA determinations in aquatic bacteria by flow cytometry". Ed. Humana Press. Humana Press.

Button, D. K. (2003). "Microbial Ecology - The Key to Discovery.. Life in Extremely Dilute Environments: the Major Role of Oligobacteria". Ed. A. Bull. :160-168. American Society for Microbiology Press, Washington.

Button, D. K. (2003). "The encyclopedia of environmental microbiology. Kinetics (microbial): Theory and Application". Ed. G. Bitton. John Wiley and Sons. :1738-1747.

Button, D. K. (2002). "The encyclopedia of environmental microbiology. Kinetics (Microbial): theory and applications". Ed. G. Bitton. :1738-1748. Wiley.

Button, D. K. (2001). Marine Microbiology. Isolation of oligobacteria. Ed. J. Paul. :161-173. Academic Press.

Button, D. K. And B. R. Robertson. (2001). "DNA content of heterotrophic bacterioplankton by flow cytometry". Appli. Environ. Microbiol. 67(4):1636-1645.

Button, D. K., and B. R. Robertson. (2000). "Effect of nutrient kinetics and cytoarchitecture on bacterioplankton size". Limnol.Oceanogr. . 45:499-505..

Robertson B. R. and D. K. Button. (1999). "Current Protocols in Cytometry. Bacterial biomass from measurements of forward light scatter intensity by flow cytometry". Ed. Robinson, P. (Ed.). John Wiley & Sons,

Button, D. K, B. R. Robertson, T. Schmidt and P. Lepp. (1998). "A small, dilute-cytoplasm, high-affinity, novel bacterium isolated by extinction culture that has kinetic constants compatible with growth at measured concentrations of dissolved nutrients in seawater". Appl. Environ. Microbiol.. 11:4467-4476..

Quang, P, D. K Button and B. R Robertson. (1998). "Use of species distribution data in the determination of bacterial viability by extinction culture of aquatic bacteria". J. Microbiol. Methods. 33:203-210.

Robertson, B. R, D. K Button and A. L. Koch. (1998). "Determination of the biomasses of small bacteria at low concentration in a mixture of species with forward light scatter measurements by flow cytometry". Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 64:3900-3909.

Specialties

  • flow cytometry
  • hydrocarbon metabolism
  • microbial interactions
  • kinetics and molecular biology of nutrient incorporation by microorganisms