Connecting the blooms: Tracking and establishing the origin of the record-breaking Lake Erie Microcystis bloom of 2011 using DGGE

Aquatic Microbial Ecology

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 29-39

  Chaffin, Justin D ^a,b   Sigler, Von ^a   Bridgeman, Thomas B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^b Department of Evolution Ecology and Organismal Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

Cyanobacteria; DGGE; Eutrophication; Microcystis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907279758     PISSN: 09483055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/ame01708     Document Type: Article

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