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Microbial community changes elicited by exposure to cyanobacterial allelochemicals.
Microbial ecology - 1 Jan 2012
Leão Pedro N, Ramos Vitor, Vale Micaela, Machado João P, Vasconcelos Vitor M
Abstract excerpt
An increasing body of evidence points out that allelopathy may be an important process shaping microbial communities in aquatic ecosystems. Cyanobacteria have well-documented allelopathic properties, mainly derived from the evaluation of the activity of allelopathic extracts or pure compounds towards monocultures of selected target microorganisms. Consequently, little is known regarding the community dynamics of...
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