Detection of the toxic cyanobacteria Nodularia spumigena by means of a 4-keto-myxoxanthophyll-like pigment in the Baltic Sea

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 275, Issue , 2004, Pages 69-78

  Schlüter, Louise ^a   Garde, Kristine ^a   Kaas, Hanne ^a  

^a DHI   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Chemotaxonomy; CHEMTAX; HPLC; Nodularia spumigena; Nodularin; Phytoplankton pigments

Indexed keywords

CYANOBACTERIUM; DETECTION METHOD; PIGMENT; TOXIC ORGANISM;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA;

ALGAE; ANABAENA; ANABAENA LEMMERMANNII; APHANIZOMENON; CYANOBACTERIA; NODULARIA SPUMIGENA;

EID: 4043076953     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps275069     Document Type: Article

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