Casting a net: Fibres produced by Microcystis sp. in field and laboratory populations

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 342-349

  Harel, Moshe ^a   Weiss, Gad ^a   Daniel, Einat ^a   Wilenz, Avraham ^a   Hadas, Ora ^b   Sukenik, Assaf ^b   Sedmak, Bojan ^c   Dittmann, Elke ^d   Braun, Sergei ^a   Kaplan, Aaron ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b ISRAEL OCEANOGRAPHIC AND LIMNOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Israel)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (Slovenia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYANOBACTERIA; CYANOTHECE; EUKARYOTA; MICROCYSTIS; MICROCYSTIS AERUGINOSA PCC 7806; MICROCYSTIS SP.; SYNECHOCYSTIS; SYNECHOCYSTIS SP. PCC 6803;

EID: 84860856286     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1758-2229.2012.00339.x     Document Type: Article

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