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Microbial community diversity in the phycosphere of natural populations of the toxic alga, Alexandrium fundyense.
Environmental microbiology - 1 Dec 2007
Hasegawa Yuko, Martin Jennifer L, Giewat Michael W, Rooney-Varga Juliette N
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The dinoflagellate Alexandrium fundyense is the major causative organism of paralytic shellfish poisoning in the Gulf of Maine. While laboratory studies have shown that A. fundyense population dynamics can be affected dramatically by co-occurring bacteria, little is known about these interactions in nature. Because A. fundyense is typically a minor Gulf of Maine phytoplankton community member, analyses of the...
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