Biomonitoring of Lake Garda: Identification of ciliate species and symbiotic algae responsible for the "black-spot" bloom during the summer of 2004

Environmental Research

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 194-200

  Pucciarelli, Sandra ^a   Buonanno, Federico ^a,b   Pellegrini, Giovanna ^c   Pozzi, Sabrina ^c   Ballarini, Patrizia ^a   Miceli, Cristina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MACERATA   (Italy)

^c Agenzia Provinciale per la Protezione dell'Ambiente   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chlorophyll a; Ciliate density; Photosensor; SSrDNA; Stentor amethystinus

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL A; PHOSPHORUS;

ALGAL BLOOM; BIOMONITORING; CHLOROPHYLL A; CILIATE; DNA; EUPHOTIC ZONE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; PHOSPHORUS; POPULATION DENSITY; SUMMER; SYMBIOSIS; ZOOPLANKTON;

ALGA; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CHLORELLA; CILIATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA PURIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENDOSYMBIONT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE AMPLIFICATION; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; STENTOR AMETHYSTINUS; SUMMER; SYMBIOSIS; WATER SAMPLING; ZOOPLANKTON;

ANIMALS; CHLORELLA; CILIOPHORA; ECOSYSTEM; EUTROPHICATION; FRESH WATER; ITALY; SYMBIOSIS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; LAKE GARDA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ALGAE; CHLORELLA SP.; CILIOPHORA; MYXOZOA; PROTOZOA; STENTOR AMETHYSTINUS;

EID: 43349088959     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2008.02.001     Document Type: Article

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