Toward a Predictive Understanding of Cyanobacterial Harmful Algal Blooms through AI Integration of Physical, Chemical, and Biological Data

BL Marrone, S Banerjee, A Talapatra… - ACS Es&t …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Freshwater cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms (cyanoHABs) are a worldwide problem
resulting in substantial economic losses, due to harm to drinking water supplies, commercial …

Microcystis pangenome reveals cryptic diversity within and across morphospecies

H Cai, CJ McLimans, JE Beyer, LR Krumholz… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Microcystis, a common harmful algal bloom (HAB) taxon, threatens water supplies and
human health, yet species delimitation is contentious in this taxon, leading to challenges in …

Microcystin congeners in Lake Erie follow the seasonal pattern of nitrogen availability

JD Chaffin, JA Westrick, LA Reitz, TB Bridgeman - Harmful Algae, 2023 - Elsevier
Cyanobacteria harmful algal blooms produce many toxic secondary metabolites called
cyanotoxins. The most studied group of cyanotoxins are microcystins (MC), with over 300 …

Trait biases in microbial reference genomes

S Albright, S Louca - Scientific Data, 2023 - nature.com
Common culturing techniques and priorities bias our discovery towards specific traits that
may not be representative of microbial diversity in nature. So far, these biases have not been …

The biological functions of microcystins

N Wei, C Hu, E Dittmann, L Song, N Gan - Water Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Microcystins are potent hepatotoxins predominantly produced by bloom-forming freshwater
cyanobacteria (eg, Microcystis, Planktothrix, Dolichospermum). Microcystin biosynthesis …

Transcriptionally active nitrogen fixation and biosynthesis of diverse secondary metabolites by Dolichospermum and Aphanizomenon-like Cyanobacteria in western …

CE Yancey, O Mathiesen, GJ Dick - Harmful Algae, 2023 - Elsevier
Cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms (cyanoHABs) in the western basin of Lake Erie are
dominated by microcystin producing Microcystis spp., but other cyanobacterial taxa that …

Lake Erie field trials to advance autonomous monitoring of cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms

PA Den Uyl, LR Thompson, RM Errera… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Biomolecular analyses are used to investigate the dynamics of cyanobacterial harmful algal
blooms (cyanoHABs), with samples collected during monitoring often analyzed by qPCR …

The Western Lake Erie Culture Collection: a promising resource for evaluating the physiological and genetic diversity of Microcystis and its associated microbiome

CE Yancey, EA Kiledal, SR Chaganti, VJ Denef… - Harmful Algae, 2023 - Elsevier
Cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms (cyanoHABs) dominated by Microcystis spp. have
significant public health and economic implications in freshwater bodies around the world …

Patterns in sources and forms of nitrogen in a large eutrophic lake during a cyanobacterial harmful algal bloom

JJ Kharbush, RS Robinson… - Limnology and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Western Lake Erie experiences an annual, toxic cyanobacterial harmful algal bloom
(cyanoHAB), primarily caused by excess anthropogenic inputs of nitrogen (N) and …

Not all bad: Gyromitrin has a limited distribution in the false morels as determined by a new ultra high-performance liquid chromatography method

AC Dirks, OG Mohamed, PJ Schultz, AN Miller… - Mycologia, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Gyromitrin (acetaldehyde N-methyl-N-formylhydrazone) and its homologs are deadly
mycotoxins produced most infamously by the lorchel (also known as false morel) Gyromitra …