Development and field assessment of a quantitative PCR for the detection and enumeration of the noxious bloom-former Anabaena planktonica

Limnology and Oceanography: Methods

Volumn 5, Issue DEC, 2007, Pages 474-483

  Rueckert, Andreas ^a   Wood, Susanna A ^a,b   Cary, S Craig ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^b CAWTHRON INSTITUTE   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANABAENA; ANABAENA PLANKTONICA; CYANOBACTERIA;

EID: 44649120861     PISSN: 15415856     EISSN: 15415856     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lom.2007.5.474     Document Type: Article

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