Fine-scale spatial and temporal genetic differentiation of water bloom-forming cyanobacterium Microcystis aeruginosa: Revealed by multilocus sequence typing

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 575-582

  Tanabe, Yuuhiko ^a   Kasai, Fumie ^b   Watanabe, Makoto M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYANOBACTERIA; MICROCYSTIS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 77955566859     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1758-2229.2009.00088.x     Document Type: Article

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