Detection of microcystin-producing cyanobacteria in Finnish lakes with genus-specific microcystin synthetase gene E (mcyE) PCR and associations with environmental factors

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 6101-6110

  Rantala, Anne ^a   Rajaniemi Wacklin, Pirjo ^a   Lyra, Christina ^a   Lepistö, Liisa ^b   Rintala, Jukka ^c   Mankiewicz Boczek, Joanna ^d   Sivonen, Kaarina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b FINNISH ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^d POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CHLOROPHYLL; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; ENZYMES; GENES; LAKES; PROBABILITY;

MC-PRODUCING GENERA; MCYE GENES; MICROCYSTIN-PRODUCING CYANOBACTERIA; OLIGOTROPHIC LAKES;

BACTERIA;

BACTERIAL ENZYME; CHLOROPHYLL A; CYANOGINOSIN; MICROCYSTIN SYNTHETASE; MYCOTOXIN; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANALYTICAL METHOD; CYANOBACTERIUM; GENE EXPRESSION; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; LOGISTICS; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; PEPTIDE; PHYTOPLANKTON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ANABAENA; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYANOBACTERIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EUTROPHICATION; FINLAND; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MCYE GENE; MICROCYSTIN PRODUCING CYANOBACTERIUM; MICROCYSTIS; NONHUMAN; PH MEASUREMENT; PHYTOPLANKTON; PLANKTOTHRIX; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; TOXIC BLOOM FORMATION;

ANABAENA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CYANOBACTERIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; ECOSYSTEM; FINLAND; FRESH WATER; GENES, BACTERIAL; LINEAR MODELS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MICROCYSTINS; MICROCYSTIS; PEPTIDE SYNTHASES; PEPTIDES, CYCLIC; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

ANABAENA; CYANOBACTERIA; MICROCYSTIS; PLANKTOTHRIX;

EID: 33748762738     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01058-06     Document Type: Article

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