Microcystin production in epiphytic cyanobacteria on submerged macrophytes

Toxicon

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1346-1352

  Mohamed, Zakaria A ^a,b   Al Shehri, Abdulrahman M ^b  

^a Sohag University   (Egypt)

^b KING KHALID UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Epiphytic cyanobacteria; Macrophytes; Microcystins; Toxins

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL A; METHANOL; MICROCYSTIN; MICROCYSTIN LR; MICROCYSTIN RR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CERATOPHYLLUM DEMERSUM; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; DRY WEIGHT; ELODEA CANADENSIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIPHYTE; FRESHWATER SPECIES; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LEPTOLYNGBYA BORYANA; LIVER TOXICITY; MACROPHYTE; MERISMOPEDIA TENUISSIMA; MYRIOPHYLLUM VERTICILLATUM; NONHUMAN; POND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAUDI ARABIA; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STRATIOTES ALOIDES; TOXICITY TESTING; TOXIN ANALYSIS; TOXIN SYNTHESIS; WATER ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; ARTEMIA; CHLOROPHYLL; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CYANOBACTERIA; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FRESH WATER; MICROCYSTINS; PLANTS; SAUDI ARABIA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

CERATOPHYLLUM DEMERSUM; CYANOBACTERIA; ELODEA CANADENSIS; LEPTOLYNGBYA BORYANA; MERISMOPEDIA TENUISSIMA; MYRIOPHYLLUM VERTICILLATUM; STRATIOTES ALOIDES;

EID: 77951652595     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2010.02.007     Document Type: Article

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