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Stability of toxin gene proportion in red-pigmented populations of the cyanobacterium Planktothrix during 29 years of re-oligotrophication of Lake Zürich.
BMC biology - 7 Dec 2012
Ostermaier Veronika, Schanz Ferdinand, Köster Oliver, Kurmayer Rainer
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BACKGROUND: Harmful algal blooms deteriorate the services of aquatic ecosystems. They are often formed by cyanobacteria composed of genotypes able to produce a certain toxin, for example, the hepatotoxin microcystin (MC), but also of nontoxic genotypes that either carry mutations in the genes enc...
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