Degradation of the toxic cyanobacterium Microcystis viridis using predaceous micro-animals combined with bacteria

Phycological Research

Volumn 46, Issue SUPPL., 1998, Pages 37-44

  Inamori, Yuhei ^a   Sugiura, Norio ^b   Iwami, Norio ^a   Matsumura, Masatoshi ^b   Hiroki, Mikiya ^a   Watanabe, Makoto M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aggregated bacteria; Biofilm; Degradation; Micr ocystis viridis; Micro animals; Microcystin RR; Predation

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOFILM; BIOREACTOR; CYANOGINOSIN; DECOMPOSITION; DEGRADATION; PREDATION; TOXICITY; TOXIN;

AEOLOSOMA HEMPRICHI; ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; MICROCYSTIS VIRIDIS; PHILODINA; PHILODINA ERYTHROPHTHALMA;

EID: 0031822149     PISSN: 13220829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1835.1998.tb00269.x     Document Type: Article

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