Author Address: State Univ. New York, Binghamton, NY 13901, USA
Reference Type: Journal Article
Record Number: 222
Author: Lambert, Grant R.; Carr, Noel G.
Year: 1984
Title: Resistance of DNA from filamentous and unicellular cyanobacteria to restriction endonuclease cleavage
Journal: Biochimica et Biophysica Acta
Volume: 781
Issue: 1-2
Pages: 45-55
Accession Number: AN 1984:134496
Keywords: Anabaena; Anabaena variabilis; Anacystis nidulans; Aphanocapsa; Aphanothece halophytica; Cyanobacteria; Escherichia coli; Gloeocapsa alpicola; Gloeotrichia; Nostoc; Plectonema boryanum; Synechococcus (DNA of, methylation state of, restriction endonuclease cleavage in relation to); Methylation (of DNA, of cyanobacteria, restriction endonuclease cleavage in relation to); Deoxyribonucleic acids Role: BIOL (Biological study) (of cyanobacteria, methylation state of, restriction endonuclease cleavage in relation to)
cyanobacteria DNA methylation restriction endonuclease; chromosome DNA methylation cyanobacteria
Abstract: Chromosomal DNA from 9 species of filamentous cyanobacteria as diverse as Nostoc, Gloeotrichia, and Plectonema is suggested to be extensively modified (methylated) by its resistance to cleavage by a no. of restriction endonucleases. A remarkably similar pattern of DNA modification in these species contrasts with the known heterogeneity of their type II restriction endonuclease content. In particular, Nostoc PCC 73102, which lacks detectable sequence-specific endonucleases, possesses extensive DNA modification. The use of isoschizomers demonstrates the presence of a methylase in the filamentous strains analogous to the dam enzyme of Escherichia coli. As a preliminary to assessing the significance of the DNA modification, a study of susceptibility to restriction endonuclease cleavage of the genomes of 5 unicellular cyanobacteria revealed considerable variation among the different strains. The significance of the DNA modification patterns elucidated is discussed in terms of the restriction endonuclease content and cellular differentiation of the relevant cyanobacterial strains. [on SciFinder (R)]
Notes: CAN 100:134496
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General Biochemistry
Dep. Biochem.,Univ. Liverpool,Liverpool,UK.
Journal
0006-3002
written in English.
80449-04-3; 80498-17-5; 81295-09-2; 81295-12-7; 81295-18-3; 81295-22-9; 81295-24-1; 81295-25-2; 81295-28-5; 81295-32-1; 81295-33-2; 81295-34-3; 81295-38-7; 81295-42-3; 81295-43-4; 81458-03-9; 81458-04-0; 81811-55-4; 83589-01-9; 83589-02-0 Role: BIOL (Biological study) (DNA of cyanobacteria cleavage by, DNA methylation state in relation to)
Reference Type: Journal Article
Record Number: 223
Author: Cmiech, H. A.; Leedale, G. F.; Reynolds, C. S.
Year: 1984
Title: Morphological and ultrastructural variability of planktonic Cyanophyceae in relation to seasonal periodicity. I. Gloeotrichia echinulata: Vegetative cells, polarity, heterocysts, akinetes
Journal: Br. Phycol. J.
Volume: 19
Issue: 3
Pages: 259-275
Accession Number: 3906585
Keywords: cell morphology; phytoplankton; seasonal variations;
ultrastructure; cytology; Gloeotrichia echinulata
Freshwater
Q1 01223 Taxonomy and morphology
Abstract: Morphology, cytology and ultrastructure of vegetative cells, filament polarity, heterocyst differentiation and akinete development in Gloeotrichia echinulata are described under natural conditions for the first time by following wild populations of the alga over two successive field seasons. The ageing sequence of vegetative cells is studied in space and time by comparing cells from one end of a filament to the other and by comparing filaments through a complete cycle of growth and development. Heterocysts are characterized by massive sheaths and absence of membranous polar elaborations; healthy gas vesicles are retained in the heterocyst, even into senescence. Akinetes develop a "spore sheath" by modification of the filament sheath. As the akinete develops, a dense stratified deposit accumulates externally to the adjacent chain of meristematic cells. These become isolated and eventually detached, presumably as a hormogonial form of perennation. (DBO)
Notes: 1984
0007-1617
English
Journal Article
Author Address: Dep. Plant Sci., Univ. Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
Reference Type: Book
Record Number: 224
Author: Chang, T. P.
Year: 1984
Title: Revision of the genus Gloeotrichia (Cyanophyta)
ISBN: 0022-3646
Accession Number: 909740
Keywords: plant morphology; taxonomy; Gloeotrichia
Freshwater
Q1 01223 Taxonomy and morphology
Abstract: Gloeotrichia , according to the presence of basal akinetes and heterocysts, should be separated from Rivularia as an independent genus in which more than 20 species and forms are known from literature and which can be now regrouped according to their similarities in morphological descriptions and original figurations. These 3 groups are examined with recently collected samples and cultured strains and, conclusively, only 3 are relevant species.
Notes: Annual Meeting of the Phycological Society of America, Fort Collins, CO (USA), 5-9 Aug 1984
(ABSTRACTS. ANNUAL MEETING OF THE PHYCOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA, 1984)., 1984, p. 26, Journal of Phycology [J. PHYCOL.], vol. 20, no. suppl.
Summary only.
English
Book Monograph; Conference; Summary
Author Address: Inst. Radiat. Hyg., BGA, D-8042 Neuherberg, FRG
Reference Type: Journal Article
Record Number: 225
Author: Oliver, R. L.; Utkilen, H. C.; Walsby, A. E.
Year: 1983
Title: Two mechanisms of buoyancy change in planktonic Cyanobacteria
Journal: Br. Phycol. J.
Volume: 18
Issue: 2
Pages: 207
Accession Number: 545671
Keywords: buoyancy; density; plant physiology
gas vesicles; Cyanobacteria
Freshwater
Q1 01223 Taxonomy and morphology
Abstract: Planktonic Cyanobacteria are able to derive buoyancy from their gas vesicles but many species are positively buoyant only at low light intensities. It has been proposed that in some, e.g., species of Anabaena , Aphanizomenon and Gloeotrichia , loss of buoyancy at high light intensity results from collapse of a proportion of their gas vesicles by increased cell turgor pressure. Indirect evidence for this mechanism has been provided by analysis of gas vesicle collapse-pressure curves. Experiments with Anabaena flos-aquae confirmed that the volume of gas vesicles collapsed accounted for the loss of buoyancey. Similar measurements of a red-coloured variety of Oscillatoria agardhii showed that gas vesicle collapse did not occur in this organism, because its gas vesicles were much stronger. This prevented gas vesicle regulation by turgor pressure. Changes in density of the Oscillatoria resulted from the dilution of gas vesicles by growth and the accumulation of cell components that contributed ballast.
Notes: Winter Meeting of the British Phycological Society, Newcastle (UK), 4-7 Jan 1983
1983
English
Journal Article; Conference; Summary
Author Address: Univ. Bristol, Bristol, UK
Reference Type: Journal Article
Record Number: 227
Author: Martinez, M. R.; Dulayleong, N.; Aquino, R. F.
Year: 1983
Title: Resistance of the Blue-Green-Alga Gloeotrichia-Natans to Desiccation
Journal: Kalikasan-the Philippine Journal of Biology
Volume: 12
Issue: 1-2
Pages: 182-186
Accession Number: ISI:A1983RB98200025
Notes: English
URL: ://A1983RB98200025
Author Address: MARTINEZ, MR, UNIV PHILIPPINES,DEPT BOT,LOS BANOS 3720,PHILIPPINES.
Reference Type: Journal Article
Record Number: 226
Author: Martinez, M. R.; Dulay-Leong, N.; Aquino, R. F.
Year: 1983
Title: Resistance of the blue-green alga Gloeotrichia natans to desiccation
Journal: Kalikasan
Volume: 12
Issue: 1-2
Pages: 182-186
Accession Number: 886910
Keywords: desiccation; biological resistance; Gloeotrichia natans
resistance; characterization; biological resistance
Freshwater
K 03005 Algae; Q1 01422 Environmental effects
Notes: 1983
English
Journal Article
Author Address: Dep. Bot., Univ. Philippines at Los Banos, College, Laguna 3720, Philippines
Reference Type: Journal Article
Record Number: 228
Author: Leeuwangh, P.; Kappers, F. I.; Dekker, M.; Koerselman, W.
Year: 1983
Title: Toxicity of cyanobacteria in Dutch lakes and reservoirs
Journal: Aquatic Toxicology
Volume: 4
Issue: 1
Pages: 63-72
Accession Number: AN 1983:502015
Keywords: Toxins Role: BIOL (Biological study) (from cyanobacteria in waterblooms in lakes and reservoirs of Holland); Gloeotrichia echinulata; Microcystis aeruginosa; Oscillatoria agardhii (toxins from waterblooms of, in lakes and reservoirs of Holland); Cyanobacteria (toxins from, in lakes and reservoirs of Holland)
cyanobacteria waterbloom toxin; Microcystis waterbloom toxin; Oscillatoria waterbloom toxin; Gloeotrichia waterbloom toxin
Abstract: In the summer of 1980, waterblooms and scums of Microcystis aeruginosa, Oscillatoria agardhii, and Gloeotrichia echinulata were collected at 11 locations. Acute toxicity of sonificated cyanobacterial suspensions was tested by i.p. injection in mice. The results indicate than in 9 of 10 locations, M. aeruginosa hepatotoxin(s) were present. These cyanobacterial endotoxin(s), the so-called Fast-Death Factor (FDF) or mycrocystin, caused death in mice within 3 h. In most samples, assocd. bacterial toxin(s), the so-called Slow-Death Factor (SDF), causing death within 4 to 48 h were possibly involved in SDF intoxication symptoms and mortality. Suspensions of O. agardhii were also found to be lethal. Symptoms and mortality are thought to be attributed to >=2 toxic factors, one resembling FDF, the other possibly resulting from assocg. bacteria. Administration of G. echinulata suspensions did not kill mice but produced symptoms of illness. The symptoms were not consistent with those obsd. with Microcystis FDF or SDF. [on SciFinder (R)]
Notes: CAN 99:102015
10-1
Microbial Biochemistry
Dep. Vet. Pharmacol. Pharm. Toxicol.,Univ. Utrecht,Utrecht,Neth.
Journal
0166-445X
written in English.
Reference Type: Journal Article
Record Number: 230
Author: Chang, T. P.
Year: 1983
Title: The Morphology of Gloeotrichia-Echinulata (Smith) Richter in Axenic Culture
Journal: Schweizerische Zeitschrift Fur Hydrologie-Swiss Journal of Hydrology
Volume: 45
Issue: 1
Pages: 296-297
Accession Number: ISI:A1983RQ96900022
Notes: German
URL: ://A1983RQ96900022
Author Address: BUNDESGESUNDHEITSAMT,INST STRAHLENHYG,D-8042 NEUHERBERG,FED REP GER.
Reference Type: Journal Article
Record Number: 229
Author: Chang, T. P.
Year: 1983
Title: Interaction of water-blooming cyanophyte Gloeotrichia echinulata and its endophytic blue-green alga Pseudanabaena catenata
Journal: Archiv fur Hydrobiologie. Stuttgart
Volume: 97
Issue: 3
Pages: 320-328
Alternate Journal: Arch. Hydrobiol.
Accession Number: 655272
Keywords: algal blooms; seasonality; endoparasitism; Pseudanabaena catenata
Gloetricha echinulata; Germany, Fed. Rep., Schleswig-Holstein,
Great Ploener L.
Freshwater
Q1 01484 Species interactions: parasites and diseases
Abstract: During its summer vegetation period G. echinulata appears rhythmically in lake surface waters for one to two days and then disappears in the following 8-9 days. This bloom alga which appeared for June-July contained no P. catenata and in August - September carried some Pseudanabaena trichomes. It has been observed that P. catenata can grow into G. echinulata cells and can destroy the host alga totally. A heterotrophic growth on cell-lysates of host alga is possible for P. catenata . The presence of such endophyte can be considered as a risk factor for the host alga and thus can be used to explain the recessive phenomenon of G. echinulata in the Ploener Lake.
Notes: 1983
0003-9136
English
Journal Article
Author Address: Inst. Strahlenhyg. Bundesgesundheitsamtes, Ingolstaedter Landst. 1, 8042 Neuherberg, FRG
Reference Type: Journal Article
Record Number: 17
Author: Cattaneo, A.
Year: 1983
Title: Grazing on Epiphytes
Journal: Limnology and Oceanography
Volume: 28
Issue: 1
Pages: 124-132
Date: Jan.
Abstract: A correlation was found between the seasonal epiphyte cycle in Lake Memphremagog (Quebec-Vermont), with a maximum in mid-June, and the abundance of grazers (mainly oligochaetes and chironomids). Evidence for a cause and effect relationship was provided by exclosure-enclosure experiments. When grazers were excluded epiphyte biomass did not decline as it did in the lake. Addition of grazers to a dense epiphyte over resulted in a decline qualitatively and quantitatively similar to that in the lake. Grazing pressure, calculated from general empirical equations for aquatic deposit feeders, was of the required order of magnitude to explain the decline in epiphyte biomass. Because similar seasonal epiphyte cycles have been described elsewhere these findings should have a wider relevance.
Notes: FLA
00243590
American Society of Limnology and Oceanography
Copyright 1983 American Society of Limnology and Oceanography
URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0024-3590%28198301%2928%3A1%3C124%3AGOE%3E2.0.CO%3B2-A
Reference Type: Journal Article
Record Number: 231
Author: Yallop, M. L.; Whitton, B. A.
Year: 1982
Title: Physiological Ecology of Blue-Green Algae in Deepwater Rice/Fields of Bangladesh
Journal: Br. Phycol. J.
Volume: 17
Issue: 2
Pages: 241
Accession Number: 267381
Keywords: ecophysiology; nitrogen fixation; light intensity; rice fields;
Cyanophyta; Aulosira; Gloeotrichia; Spirogyra; Draparnaldia;
Bangladesh
Freshwater
Q1 01461 Plankton
Abstract: Large areas of Bangladesh are flooded during the months of June to October to a depth o at least 1 multiplied by 5-2 multiplied by 0 m; some 2 x 10 super(6) ha of this land are planted with deepwater rice. A study was made during mid-August to mid-September 1981 of the ecology of seven sites near Dacca, as part of a project to establish the role of blue-green algae in the growth of the deepwater rice. The waters were found to be relatively soft (50-190 mu S cm super(-1)) and with minimum pH values below or near 7 multiplied by 0; higher values were however often recorded in the afternoon due to the influence of photosynthetic activity in the poorly buffered waters. A relatively rich algal flora occurred together with submerged macrophyte weeds in open areas among the rice fields; the algal dominants were Aulosira, Gloeotrichia, Spirogyra and Draparnaldia . Algal growth in the rice fields consisted mostly of one form of Gloeotrichia , forming small colonies attached to the culms, nodal roots and the older leaves of the rice plants. Such colonies were often very abundant on plants near the edge of the rice fields, but much less abundant away from the edge. Rates of nitrogen fixation were measured using the acetylene reduction technique. Results indicated that such rates were extremely sensitive to ambient light intensities.
Notes: British Phycological Society Winter Meeting, London (UK), 5 Jan 1982
1982
Summary only.
Journal Article; Conference; Summary
Author Address: Univ. Durham, Durham, UK
Reference Type: Journal Article
Record Number: 97
Author: Stauffer, Robert E.
Year: 1982
Title: Wind Stress Effects on Chlorophyll Distribution in Stratified Eutrophic Lakes
Journal: Limnology and Oceanography
Volume: 27
Issue: 1
Pages: 66-74
Date: Jan.
Abstract: The spatial distribution of Chl a in eutrophic Lakes Mendota and Delavan, Wisconsin, were studied during the 1971-1972 stratified seasons. A surface bloom was present on only 6 of 64 sampling dates, always associated with calm, sunny weather following cold fronts. A subsurface Chl a maximum was often observed at 3-5 m, associated with a transient upper breeze thermocline. Analysis of distributed-lag antecedent wind stress showed that stress during the 6 h immediately before sampling predicts lateral gradients in chlorophyll standing crop (CSC) unless slight recent stress follows both high stress and an important directional shift. The short response time agrees with fetch transit times for the surface wind drift current and lag times involving the epilimnetic set-up. Increasing the average CSC increases its lateral response to wind stress, possibly because large standing crops tend to be buoyant and hence readily advected by the wind.
Notes: FLA
00243590
American Society of Limnology and Oceanography
Copyright 1982 American Society of Limnology and Oceanography
URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0024-3590%28198201%2927%3A1%3C66%3AWSEOCD%3E2.0.CO%3B2-I
Reference Type: Journal Article
Record Number: 232
Author: Kostyaev, V. Ya
Year: 1982
Title: Molecular nitrogen fixation by an epiphyte complex of aquatic plants in Latvian lakes
Journal: Mikrobiologiya
Volume: 51
Issue: 6
Pages: 1015-18
Accession Number: AN 1983:124866
Keywords: Cyanobacteria; Gloeotrichia pisum; Gloetrichia pisum (nitrogen fixation by aquatic plants of Latvian lakes in relation to); Plant (aquatic, nitrogen fixation by, in Latvian lakes, cyanobacteria role in); Waters (lake, nitrogen fixation by aquatic plants of, of Lativa, cyanobacteria role in)
nitrogen fixation aq plant cyanobacteria
Abstract: The N fixation by macrophytes from various lakes of Latvia was strongly correlated with the abundance in them of cyanobacteria. The Gleotricha pisum colonies were not assocd. with any specific plant of the coastal zones of the lakes. N fixation by plants without cyanobacteria ranged on av. from 1.54 to 3.3 and by those with cyanobacteria from 23.6 to 65.87 mg N/g/day; thus the cyanobacteria presence increased the N fixation >=20-fold. The data can be used for calcg. the N fixation in lakes; for that purpose it is necessary to know not only the area occupied by macrophytes but also the area occupied by cyanobacteria-inhabiting plants. [on SciFinder (R)]
Notes: CAN 98:124866
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Fertilizers, Soils, and Plant Nutrition
Inst. Biol. Vnutr. Vod,Borok,USSR.
Journal
0026-3656
written in Russian.
Reference Type: Journal Article
Record Number: 233
Author: Kappers, F. I.
Year: 1982
Title: Toxic cyanobacteria in the Netherlands
Journal: Hydrobiol. Bull.
Volume: 16
Issue: 2-3
Pages: 291
Accession Number: 679910
Keywords: toxicity; biological poisons; algal blooms; Microcystis
aeruginosa; Oscillatoria agardhii; Gloeotrichia echinulata;
Netherlands
Freshwater
Q1 01524 Public health, medicines, dangerous organisms
Abstract: In the summer of 1980 waterblooms and scums of Microcystis aerugin osa , Oscillatoria agardhii and Gloeotrichia echinulata have been collected from 11 locations. Acute toxicity of sonificated algal suspensions was tested by intraperitoneal injection in mice. The res ults indicate that in 9 out of 10 sample sites lethal M. aeruginos a hepatoxin(s) were present, while in most samples associated bacter ial toxins(s) were possibly involved in SDF (Slow Death Factor) intox ication symptoms and death. Two unialgal strains of M. aeruginosa (RID-2B, isolated from a Dutch storage reservoir, and the Norwegian toxic CYA 57) showed the same toxicity. Suspensions of O. agardhii were also found to be lethal. Symptoms and mortality are thought to be attributed to at least two toxic factors. One resembling FDF, t he other possibly resulting from associated bacteria. Administration of G. echinulata suspensions did not kill mice but produced symptoms of illness, which were not consistent with those observed with Microcystis FDF (Fast Death Factor) or SDF.
Notes: 1982
Summary only.
English
Journal Article; Summary
Author Address: Natl. Inst. Water Supply, Postbus 150, 2260 AD Leidschendam, Netherlands
Reference Type: Journal Article
Record Number: 234
Author: Huang, Chi Min; Chang, Chin Hua; Wang, Chwan Chau
Year: 1982
Title: Effect of soil inoculant application on sugarcane growth
Journal: Taiwan Tangye Yanjiuso Yanjiu Huibao
Volume: 98
Pages: 15-24
Accession Number: AN 1983:538761
Keywords: Nitrogen fixation (by cyanobacteria from soil inoculant, sugarcane growth in relation to); Anabaena; Gloeocapsa; Gloeotrichia; Hapalosiphon; Merismopedia; Nostoc (nitrogen fixation by, sugarcane response to soil inoculant in relation to); Sugarcane (soil inoculation with nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria effect on); Cyanobacteria (nitrogen-fixing, soil inoculation with, sugarcane response to)
cyanobacteria soil inoculation sugarcane; nitrogen fixation cyanobacteria sugarcane
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