The rise of potentially toxin producing cyanobacteria in Lake Naivasha, Great African Rift Valley, Kenya

L Krienitz, PK Dadheech, J Fastner, K Kotut - Harmful Algae, 2013 - Elsevier
Lake Naivasha, an important inland water ecosystem and a crucial freshwater resource in
the Great African Rift Valley, has displayed clear signals of degradation in recent decades …

Is Toxin-Producing Planktothrix sp. an Emerging Species in Lake Constance?

C Fournier, E Riehle, DR Dietrich, D Schleheck - Toxins, 2021 - mdpi.com
Recurring blooms of filamentous, red-pigmented and toxin-producing cyanobacteria
Planktothrix rubescens have been reported in numerous deep and stratified prealpine lakes …

Alborzia kermanshahica gen. nov., sp. nov. (Chroococcales, Cyanobacteria), isolated from paddy fields in Iran

B Nowruzi, F Soares - International Journal of Systematic …, 2021 - microbiologyresearch.org
In Iran, polyphasic studies of unicellular cyanobacteria are still scarce, with more emphasis
being placed on filamentous cyanobacteria in paddy fields and fresh water regions. In an …

Monitoring a newly re-born patient: water quality and cyanotoxin occurrence in a reconstructed shallow Mediterranean lake

S Gkelis, M Panou, I Chronis… - Advances in …, 2017 - pagepressjournals.org
ABSTRACT Lake Karla (Central Greece) is a unique example-at European scale-of a
shallow lake ecosystem that was dried in the 1960s and in 2009 started to be restored. The …

Intensification of harmful cyanobacterial blooms in a eutrophic, temperate lake caused by nitrogen, temperature, and CO2

BJ Kramer, K Turk-Kubo, JP Zehr, CJ Gobler - Science of the Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Warmer temperatures can significantly increase the intensity of cyanobacterial harmful algal
blooms (CHABs) in eutrophic freshwater ecosystems. However, few studies have examined …

Identification of toxigenic Cyanobacteria of the genus Microcystis in the Curonian Lagoon (Baltic Sea)

OI Belykh, OA Dmitrieva, AS Gladkikh… - Oceanology, 2013 - Springer
Abstract In 2002–2008, seasonal (April–November) monitoring of the phytoplankton in the
Russian part of the Curonian Lagoon at five fixed sites was performed. A total of 91 …

Fluctuations in microcystin concentrations, potentially toxic Microcystis and genotype diversity in a cyanobacterial community from a tropical reservoir

IA Guedes, DM da Costa Leite, LA Manhães, PM Bisch… - Harmful Algae, 2014 - Elsevier
In the study of cyanobacterial communities, molecular methods can be used to detect and
quantify toxin-producing strains and assess genotype diversity. These are promising …

Application of Real-Time PCR To Estimate Toxin Production by the Cyanobacterium Planktothrix sp

V Ostermaier, R Kurmayer - Applied and environmental …, 2010 - Am Soc Microbiol
Quantitative real-time PCR methods are increasingly being applied for the enumeration of
toxic cyanobacteria in the environment. However, to justify the use of real-time PCR …

UVB radiation as a potential selective factor favoring microcystin producing bloom forming cyanobacteria

Y Ding, L Song, B Sedmak - PLoS One, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Due to the stratospheric ozone depletion, several organisms will become exposed to
increased biologically active UVB (280–320 nm) radiation, not only at polar but also at …

Convergent evolution of [D-Leucine1] microcystin-LR in taxonomically disparate cyanobacteria

TK Shishido, U Kaasalainen, DP Fewer… - BMC Evolutionary …, 2013 - Springer
Background Many important toxins and antibiotics are produced by non-ribosomal
biosynthetic pathways. Microcystins are a chemically diverse family of potent peptide toxins …