Switching toxin production on and off: Intermittent microcystin synthesis in a Microcystis bloom

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 118-124

  Wood, Susie A ^a   Rueckert, Andreas ^b   Hamilton, David P ^b   Cary, S Craig ^b,c   Dietrich, Daniel R ^d  

^a CAWTHRON INSTITUTE   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYANOBACTERIA; MICROCYSTIS; MICROCYSTIS SP.;

EID: 79953742003     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1758-2229.2010.00196.x     Document Type: Article

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