2017
Bouma-Gregson, Keith
The Ecology of Benthic Toxigenic Anabaena and Phormidium (Cyanobacteria) in the Eel River, California PhD Thesis
University of California, Berkeley, 2017, ISBN: 978-0-355-94920-9.
Abstract | BibTeX | Tags: Anabaena, Anatoxin-a, Biological sciences, cyanobacteria, Cyanotoxin, ERCZO, metagenomics, Phormidium
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title = {The Ecology of Benthic Toxigenic Anabaena and Phormidium (Cyanobacteria) in the Eel River, California},
author = {Keith Bouma-Gregson},
isbn = {978-0-355-94920-9},
year = {2017},
date = {2017-12-31},
school = {University of California, Berkeley},
abstract = {Cyanobacteria are ubiquitous in aquatic ecosystems across the earth. In many environments they are present at low abundances, however under certain environmental conditions cyanobacteria bloom and become one of the dominant organisms in an waterbody, degrading aquatic food webs and water quality. Cyanobacteria evolved over 2 billion years ago, and cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms (cyanoHABs) have been documented for decades. Of particular concern is the production of cyanotoxins, secondary metabolites toxic to humans and other organisms, by certain strains of cyanobacteria. Most research of cyanoHABs has been of planktonic blooms in lakes or estuaries, and cyanotoxin production by benthic cyanobacteria in rivers has been more recent, but in many rivers benthic cyanobacteria are the primary source of cyanotoxins. With field surveys and monitoring, manipulative field experiments, and genome-resolved metagenomics, this dissertation investigated the ecology of benthic cyanobacteria in the Eel River, California.},
keywords = {Anabaena, Anatoxin-a, Biological sciences, cyanobacteria, Cyanotoxin, ERCZO, metagenomics, Phormidium},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {phdthesis}
}
Cyanobacteria are ubiquitous in aquatic ecosystems across the earth. In many environments they are present at low abundances, however under certain environmental conditions cyanobacteria bloom and become one of the dominant organisms in an waterbody, degrading aquatic food webs and water quality. Cyanobacteria evolved over 2 billion years ago, and cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms (cyanoHABs) have been documented for decades. Of particular concern is the production of cyanotoxins, secondary metabolites toxic to humans and other organisms, by certain strains of cyanobacteria. Most research of cyanoHABs has been of planktonic blooms in lakes or estuaries, and cyanotoxin production by benthic cyanobacteria in rivers has been more recent, but in many rivers benthic cyanobacteria are the primary source of cyanotoxins. With field surveys and monitoring, manipulative field experiments, and genome-resolved metagenomics, this dissertation investigated the ecology of benthic cyanobacteria in the Eel River, California.