Co-occurrence of β-N-methylamino-l-alanine, a neurotoxic amino acid with other cyanobacterial toxins in British waterbodies, 1990-2004

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 702-708

  Metcalf, James S ^a,b   Banack, Sandra Anne ^b,c   Lindsay, Jaime ^a   Morrison, Louise F ^a   Cox, Paul Alan ^b   Codd, Geoffrey A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b Institute for Ethnomedicine   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA AMINO BETA METHYLAMINOPROPIONATE; ALPHA-AMINO-BETA-METHYLAMINOPROPIONATE; BACTERIAL TOXIN; CYANOBACTERIAL TOXIN; DIAMINO ACID; MARINE TOXIN; MICROCYSTIN; NEUROTOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; CYANOBACTERIUM; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; WATER POLLUTANT;

AMINO ACIDS, DIAMINO; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CYANOBACTERIA; MARINE TOXINS; MICROCYSTINS; NEUROTOXINS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTANTS;

ANIMALIA; CYANOBACTERIA;

EID: 38549109973     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2007.01492.x     Document Type: Article

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