The abundance of microcystin-producing genotypes correlates positively with colony size in Microcystis sp. and determines its microcystin net production in Lake Wannsee

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 787-795

  Kurmayer, Rainer ^a,c   Christiansen, Guntram ^b   Chorus, Ingrid ^a  

^a UMWELTBUNDESAMT   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GROWTH KINETICS;

GENOTYPES;

MICROBIOLOGY;

CYANOGINOSIN;

LAKE ECOSYSTEM; MICROORGANISM;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CELL COUNT; CELL SIZE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRACTIONATION; GENOTYPE; GROWTH RATE; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; MICROCYSTIS; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; WATER SAMPLING;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; ECOSYSTEM; FRESH WATER; GENOTYPE; GERMANY; MICROCYSTINS; MICROCYSTIS; PEPTIDES, CYCLIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MICROCYSTIS; MICROCYSTIS SP.; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0347927723     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.2.787-795.2003     Document Type: Article

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