Ecological implications of the emergence of non-toxic subcultures from toxic Microcystis strains

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 798-805

  Schatz, D ^a   Keren, Y ^a   Hadas, O ^b   Carmeli, S ^c   Sukenik, A ^b   Kaplan, A ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b ISRAEL OCEANOGRAPHIC AND LIMNOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; RNA 16S; SPACER DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOSYNTHESIS; ECOLOGY; GENETICS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM; MICROCYSTIS;

BACTERIAL TOXINS; DNA, INTERGENIC; ECOLOGY; GENES, BACTERIAL; MICROCYSTIS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION;

MICROCYSTIS; MICROCYSTIS SP.;

EID: 18944369164     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2005.00752.x     Document Type: Article

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