Monitoring changing toxigenicity of a cyanobacterial bloom by molecular methods

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 68, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 6070-6076

  Baker, Judith A ^a   Entsch, Barrie ^a   Neilan, Brett A ^b   McKay, David B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE SUNSHINE COAST   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOASSAY; BIOSYNTHESIS; HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; RESERVOIRS (WATER); TOXICITY; WATER SUPPLY SYSTEMS;

TOXIGENICITY;

WATER BACTERIOLOGY;

BACTERIAL TOXIN; CYANOGINOSIN; DRINKING WATER; PHYCOCYANIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; RNA 16S; SAXITOXIN;

CYANOBACTERIUM; MONITORING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TOXICITY;

ALPHA CHAIN; ANABAENA; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BETA CHAIN; BIOASSAY; CYANOBACTERIUM; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER INJURY; MICROCYSTIS AERUGINOSA; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TOXICITY TESTING; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SUPPLY;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CYANOBACTERIA; MICE; MICROCYSTINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES, CYCLIC; PHYCOCYANIN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SAXITOXIN; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

ANABAENA; ANABAENA CIRCINALIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; MICROCYSTIS; MICROCYSTIS AERUGINOSA; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0036946724     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.68.12.6070-6076.2002     Document Type: Article

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