Climate change and the aquatic continuum: A cyanobacterial comeback story

BN Zepernick, SW Wilhelm… - Environmental …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Billions of years ago, the Earth's waters were dominated by cyanobacteria. These microbes
amassed to such formidable numbers, they ushered in a new era—starting with the Great …

Understanding and predicting harmful algal blooms in a changing climate: A trait‐based framework

E Litchman - Limnology and Oceanography Letters, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The worldwide proliferation of harmful algal blooms (HABs) both in freshwater and marine
ecosystems make understanding and predicting their occurrence urgent. Trait‐based …

Chemodiversity of cyanobacterial toxins driven by future scenarios of climate warming and eutrophication

Y Yang, H Wang, S Yan, T Wang, P Zhang… - Environmental …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Climate change and eutrophication are two environmental threats that can alter the structure
of freshwater ecosystems and their service functions, but we know little about how …

Advances in investigating microcystin-induced liver toxicity and underlying mechanisms

T Li, X Fan, M Cai, Y Jiang, Y Wang, P He, J Ni… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Microcystins (MCs) are a class of biologically active cyclic heptapeptide pollutants produced
by the freshwater alga Microcystis aeruginosa. With increased environmental pollution, MCs …

Microcystis pangenome reveals cryptic diversity within and across morphospecies

H Cai, CJ McLimans, JE Beyer, LR Krumholz… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Microcystis, a common harmful algal bloom (HAB) taxon, threatens water supplies and
human health, yet species delimitation is contentious in this taxon, leading to challenges in …

Heterotrophic Bacteria Dominate Catalase Expression during Microcystis Blooms

DJ Smith, MA Berry, RM Cory… - Applied and …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
In the oligotrophic oceans, key autotrophs depend on “helper” bacteria to reduce oxidative
stress from hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) in the extracellular environment. H2O2 is also a …

Microcystin congeners in Lake Erie follow the seasonal pattern of nitrogen availability

JD Chaffin, JA Westrick, LA Reitz, TB Bridgeman - Harmful Algae, 2023 - Elsevier
Cyanobacteria harmful algal blooms produce many toxic secondary metabolites called
cyanotoxins. The most studied group of cyanotoxins are microcystins (MC), with over 300 …

[HTML][HTML] Geographic redistribution of microcystin hotspots in response to climate warming

J Merder, T Harris, G Zhao, DM Stasinopoulos… - Nature Water, 2023 - nature.com
High concentrations of cyanobacterial toxins such as microcystin represent a global
challenge to water quality in lakes, threatening health, economies and ecosystem stability …

Lake Erie fish safe to eat yet afflicted by algal hepatotoxins

RS Shahmohamadloo, SP Bhavsar, XO Almirall… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Toxic harmful algal blooms (HABs) pose serious threats to human health and instances of
wildlife death have been documented across taxa. However, the extent of toxicological …

Adsorption-electrochemical mediated precipitation for phosphorus recovery from sludge filter wastewater with a lanthanum-modified cellulose sponge filter

S Dong, X Li, S Wang, D Zhang, Y Chen, F Xiao… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
In this study, the sludge filter wastewater is confirmed to investigate the effects of adsorption-
electrochemical mediated precipitation (EMP) driven phosphorus recovery on the basis of …