Automated detection and enumeration for toxic algae by solid-phase cytometry and the introduction of a new probe for Prymnesium parvum (Haptophyta: Prymnesiophyceae)

Journal of Plankton Research

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 643-657

  Töbe, Kerstin ^a   Eller, Gundula ^b   Medlin, Linda K ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAL BLOOM; DETECTION METHOD; DINOFLAGELLATE; IN SITU TEST; MICROSCOPY; RNA; TAXONOMY; TOXIC ORGANISM;

ALEXANDRIUM; ALGAE; DINOPHYCEAE; HAPTOPHYCEAE; PRYMNESIUM; PRYMNESIUM PARVUM;

EID: 33745698211     PISSN: 01427873     EISSN: 14643774     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/plankt/fbi147     Document Type: Article

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