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Distribution of the Harmful Bloom-Forming Cyanobacterium, Microcystis aeruginosa, in 88 Freshwater Environments across Japan.


ABSTRACT: Microcystis aeruginosa was quantitatively surveyed in 88 freshwater environments across Japan within 3? ?weeks in 2011. In order to clarify the distribution pattern of M. aeruginosa at the intra-species level, three major genotypes, which were defined by 16S-23S rRNA inter-transcribed-spacer (ITS) regions, were selectively detected using quantitative real-time PCR assays. Of the 68 sites at which the Microcystis intergenic-spacer region of the phycocyanin (IGS-PC) gene was detected, the M. aeruginosa morphotype-related genotype (MG1) dominated in 41 sites, followed by the non-toxic M. wesenbergii-related genotype (MG3). A correlation analysis showed that total nitrogen and phosphate positively correlated with the abundance of IGS-PC, which positively correlated with microcystin synthetase gene abundance. A redundancy analysis of genotype compositions showed that pH positively correlated with the dominance of MG3 and negatively correlated with MG1, i.e., both toxic and non-toxic genotypes. Our survey of Microcystis populations over a wide area revealed that MG1 is a dominant genotype in Japan.

SUBMITTER: Kataoka T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7104289 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Distribution of the Harmful Bloom-Forming Cyanobacterium, Microcystis aeruginosa, in 88 Freshwater Environments across Japan.

Kataoka Takafumi T   Ohbayashi Kako K   Kobayashi Yuki Y   Takasu Hiroyuki H   Nakano Shin-Ichi SI   Kondo Ryuji R   Hodoki Yoshikuni Y  

Microbes and environments 20200101 1


Microcystis aeruginosa was quantitatively surveyed in 88 freshwater environments across Japan within 3‍ ‍weeks in 2011. In order to clarify the distribution pattern of M. aeruginosa at the intra-species level, three major genotypes, which were defined by 16S-23S rRNA inter-transcribed-spacer (ITS) regions, were selectively detected using quantitative real-time PCR assays. Of the 68 sites at which the Microcystis intergenic-spacer region of the phycocyanin (IGS-PC) gene was detected, the M. aerug  ...[more]

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