Distribution of microcystin-producing and non-microcystin-producing Microcystis sp. in European freshwater bodies: Detection of microcystins and microcystin genes in individual colonies

Systematic and Applied Microbiology

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 592-602

  Via Ordorika, Lorena ^a,c   Fastner, Jutta ^a,b   Kurmayer, Rainer ^d   Hisbergues, Michael ^c,e   Dittmann, Elke ^c   Komarek, Jiri ^f   Erhard, Marcel ^g   Chorus, Ingrid ^a  

^a UMWELTBUNDESAMT   (Germany)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^e INSTITUT PASTEUR DE LILLE   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^g AnagnosTec Gesellschaft fur Analytische Biochemie & Diagnostik mbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cyanobacteria; Eutrophication; Hepatotoxicity; Lake management; Microcystin genotype distribution

Indexed keywords

CYANOGINOSIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM COLONY; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; GEOGRAPHY; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROCYSTIS; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; MICROCYSTIS; MICROCYSTIS AERUGINOSA; MICROCYSTIS BOTRYS; MICROCYSTIS ICHTHYOBLABE; MICROCYSTIS SP.; MICROCYSTIS VIRIDIS; MICROCYSTIS WESENBERGII;

EID: 4644305667     PISSN: 07232020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1078/0723202041748163     Document Type: Article

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