Diversity of microcystin genes within a population of the toxic cyanobacterium Microcystis spp. in Lake Wannsee (Berlin, Germany)

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 107-118

  Kurmayer, R ^a,b,d   Dittmann, E ^b   Fastner, J ^c   Chorus, I ^a  

^a UMWELTBUNDESAMT   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYANOBACTERIUM; GENE;

MICROCYSTIS; MICROCYSTIS AERUGINOSA; MICROCYSTIS ICHTHYOBLABE; MICROCYSTIS WESENBERGII; PROKARYOTA;

BACTERIAL DNA; CYANOGINOSIN; CYANOGINOSIN LR; CYANOGINOSIN RR; CYCLOPEPTIDE; PRIMER DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CYANOGINOSIN YR; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GERMANY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROCYSTIS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; GERMANY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROCYSTINS; MICROCYSTIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES, CYCLIC; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; POPULATION DYNAMICS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0036048655     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-001-0039-3     Document Type: Article

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