Toxins in the freshwater cyanobacterium Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii (Cyanophyceae) isolated from Tabocas reservoir in Caruaru, Brazil, including demonstration of a new saxitoxin analogue

Phycologia

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 606-611

  Molica, Renato ^a   Onodera, Hideyuki ^c   García, Carlos ^b   Rivas, Mariella ^b   Andrinolo, Darío ^b   Nascimento, Silvia ^a,e   Meguro, Hiroshi ^d   Oshima, Yasukatsu ^c   Azevedo, Sandra ^f   Lagos, Néstor ^b  

^a ITEP   (Brazil)

^b Depto Genet Molec Y M   (Chile)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d TOHOKU FUKUSHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^f NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYANOBACTERIA; CYLINDROSPERMOPSIS RACIBORSKII;

EID: 0036870773     PISSN: 00318884     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2216/i0031-8884-41-6-606.1     Document Type: Article

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