Dominance of cyanobacteria in phytoplankton communities creates undesirable situations in fresh, brackish, and salty waters worldwide. Dense cyanobacterial blooms may lead to serious health consequences for cattle, wildlife, pets, and humans (Carmichael1992; Paerl et al.2001; Huisman et al.2006). Such...
Blue-greenalgae:Also known asslimeor smear algae, it can be caused by an excess of nitrate and phosphate in the water. In most cases, this is actually not algae at all, but cyanobacteria. It can spread rapidly and can be difficult to control. Good water care will help, but if your w...
FishLab Fact:The“lower nitrates are better”rule is thrown out the window if you have a planted aquarium. Many plants use nitrates for food, and in this case, low nitrate levels can actually cause problems and can even lead to ablue-green algae(cyanobacteria) outbreak. ...
Photosynthetic organisms such as cyanobacteria have been shown to exhibit complex transcriptional remodeling with respect to diurnal variation of light availability [1-3]. However, the reported estimates of the number of oscillating transcripts differ strongly between studies and range between 9-80% of ...
Controlling the spread of cyanobacteria has become a pressing global challenge. Especially for lakes/reservoirs and larger ponds. Common methods to prevent algal blooms include aeration, chemical/biological additives, or ultrasonic technology. Although there are plenty of treatment solutions on the market...
the contagiousness of toxicity is a natural defense mechanism. Howard Bloom inThe Lucifer Principleexplains how increased toxicity of cyanobacteria was one of the first evolutionary adaptations — bacteria actually evolved to get more and more toxic in order to survive. The same applies to humans on...
Three evolutionary scenarios for the origin of endomembrane system-mediated protein targeting to higher plant plastids.The phagotrophic ancestor of the kingdom Archaeplastida, including glaucophytes, red algae, and green plants, regularly fed on cyanobacteria, from which genes migrated to the host nuc...
A non random-split of the data to groups that are spatially, temporally or otherwise distinct may be used to assess model transferability and to avoid overfitting in the absence of data from independent sampling campaigns (Wenger and Olden, 2012). Commonly used methods to assess goodness-of-fit...
food through photosynthesis. They are similar to higher plants, but they lack many of the distinct organs that you will find in a higher plant. The higher plants are believed to have evolved from algae, and algae are believed to have gotten their capacity for photosynthesis from cyanobacteria....
Glitter is made to be tiny and adhere loosely to surfaces, contributing to microplastic pollution. Biodegradable solutions might still get everywhere, but won't stick around forever.