Dynamics of microcystin-producing and non-microcystin-producing Microcystis populations is correlated with nitrate concentration in a Japanese lake

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 266, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 49-53

  Yoshida, Mitsuhiro ^a   Yoshida, Takashi ^a   Takashima, Yukari ^a   Hosoda, Naohiko ^a   Hiroishi, Shingo ^a  

^a FUKUI PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Microcystin; Microcystis; Peptide synthetase; Population dynamics; Real time PCR; Toxic cyanobacteria

Indexed keywords

CYANOGINOSIN; NITRATE; PHOSPHATE; SPACER DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; JAPAN; LAKE; MCYA GENE; MICROCYSTIS; MICROCYSTIS AERUGINOSA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WATER TEMPERATURE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA, INTERGENIC; FRESH WATER; GENOTYPE; JAPAN; MICROCYSTINS; MICROCYSTIS; NITRATES; PEPTIDE SYNTHASES; PHYCOCYANIN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

CYANOBACTERIA; MICROCYSTIS; MICROCYSTIS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 33845548566     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2006.00496.x     Document Type: Article

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