The use of algicidal bacteria has gained prominence as natural solution to control the
worrying increase of harmful algal blooms worldwide. However, although cyanobacterial …

Accurately identifying the species present in an ecosystem is vital to lake managers and
successful bioassessment programs. This is particularly important when monitoring …

The metabolic activity of microbial communities plays a primary role in the flow of essential
nutrients throughout the biosphere. Molecular genetics has revealed the metabolic …

The current study reports the community succession of different toxin and non-toxin
producing cyanobacteria at different stages of cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms …

In deep drinking water reservoir ecosystems, the dynamics and interactions of community
compositions of phytoplankton and eukaryotes during the mixing periods are still unclear …

The aquatic microbiota is known to be an important factor in the sustainability of the natural
water ecosystems. However, the microbial community also might include pathogens, which …

Eutrophication of freshwater lakes is an important cause of global water pollution. In this
study, the composition and biogeographic distribution of both abundant and rare …

Both phytoplankton and bacteria are fundamental organisms with key ecological functions in
lake ecosystems. However, the mechanistic interactions through which phytoplankton …

Blooms of planktonic cyanobacteria have long been of concern in lakes, but more recently,
harmful impacts of riverine benthic cyanobacterial mats been recognized. As yet, we know …

Selection of optimal primer pairs in 16S rRNA gene sequencing is a pivotal issue in
microorganism diversity analysis. However, limited effort has been put into investigation of …