Non-autonomous transposable elements associated with inactivation of microcystin gene clusters in strains of the genus Anabaena isolated from the Baltic Sea

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 189-194

  Fewer, David P ^a   Halinen, Katrianna ^a   Sipari, Hanna ^a   Bernardová, Kateřina ^a   Mänttäri, Mia ^a   Eronen, Eeva ^a   Sivonen, Kaarina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACARI; ANABAENA; CYANOBACTERIA;

EID: 79954615824     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1758-2229.2010.00207.x     Document Type: Article

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