Phylogenetic relationships between toxic and non-toxic strains of the genus Microcystis based on 16S to 23S internal transcribed spacer sequence

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 172, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 15-21

  Otsuka, Shigeto ^a   Suda, Shoichiro ^b   Li, Renhui ^c   Watanabe, Masayuki ^d   Oyaizu, Hiroshi ^a   Matsumoto, Satoshi ^a   Watanabe, Makoto M ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Global Environmental Forum   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^d Natl Sci Mus 4 1 1 Amakubo T ^*  (Japan)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cyanobacteria; Internal transcribed spacer; Microcystin; Microcystis; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

CYANOGINOSIN; RIBOSOME DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; DNA SEQUENCE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; MICROCYSTINS; MICROCYSTIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES, CYCLIC; PHYCOERYTHRIN; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 23S; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0032993989     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00010-5     Document Type: Article

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