Application of real-time PCR assay for detection and quantification of Alexandrium tamarense and Alexandrium catenella cysts from marine sediments

Harmful Algae

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 413-420

  Kamikawa, Ryoma ^a   Nagai, Satoshi ^b   Hosoi Tanabe, Shoko ^c   Itakura, Shigeru ^b   Yamaguchi, Mineo ^b   Uchida, Yoshitaka ^d   Baba, Toshinori ^d   Sako, Yoshihiko ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b National Research Institute of Fisheries and Environments of Inland Sea   (Japan)

^c KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Yamaguchi Prefectural Fisheries Research Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

A. catenella; A. tamarense; Cyst; Dinoflagellate; Paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP); Real time PCR

Indexed keywords

ALEXANDRIUM CATENELLA; ALEXANDRIUM TAMARENSE; DINOPHYCEAE;

EID: 33947148224     PISSN: 15689883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hal.2006.12.004     Document Type: Article

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