
%0 Journal Article
%A Neilan, BA 
%A Hawkins, PR 
%A Cox, PT 
%A Goodman, AE 
%T Towards a molecular taxonomy for the bloom-forming cyanobacteria
%J Marine and Freshwater Research
%D 1994/07/01
%V 45
%N 5
%P 869-873
%K 16s rRNA, PCR, Microcystis, Anabaena, DNA sequence
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/MF9940869
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/MF9940869 
%X Regions of the 16s subunit of the ribosomal RNA gene of the bloom-associated cyanobacterial genera Microcystis and Anabaena have been sequenced and found to provide strain-specific sequence information. Comparisons of the DNA sequence of these cyanobacteria indicated that the strains examined are related and that probes diagnostic for bloom-forming and toxigenic strains in water samples can be designed. 
