Abundance of active and inactive microcystin genotypes in populations of the toxic cyanobacterium Planktothrix spp.

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 831-841

  Kurmayer, Rainer ^a   Christiansen, Guntram ^b,d   Fastner, Jutta ^c   Börner, Thomas ^b  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UMWELTBUNDESAMT   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CYANOGINOSIN; CYCLOPEPTIDE; FRESH WATER; MICROCYSTIN SYNTHETASE A; PEPTIDE SYNTHASE; PHYCOCYANIN; SPACER DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CHEMISTRY; CYANOBACTERIUM; DNA SEQUENCE; EUROPE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CYANOBACTERIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, INTERGENIC; EUROPE; FRESH WATER; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; MICROCYSTINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PEPTIDE SYNTHASES; PEPTIDES, CYCLIC; PHYCOCYANIN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; VARIATION (GENETICS); WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PLANKTOTHRIX; PLANKTOTHRIX AGARDHII; PLANKTOTHRIX RUBESCENS;

EID: 3543094004     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2004.00626.x     Document Type: Article

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