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JPR Advance Access published online on April 27, 2004
Journal of Plankton Research, doi:10.1093/plankt/fbh083
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Received July 28, 2003
Accepted April 7, 2004

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Occurrence of mycosporine-like amino acids (MAAs) in the bloom-forming cyanobacterium Microcystis aeruginosa

Zhengwen Liu 1*, Donat P. Häder 2, Ruben Sommaruga 3

1 Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 73 East Beijing Road, Nanjing 210008, China; Research Center of Hydrobiology, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China; Department of Ecophysiology, University of Erlangen, Staudtst. 5, 91058 Erlangen, Germany
2 Department of Ecophysiology, University of Erlangen, Staudtst. 5, 91058 Erlangen, Germany
3 Laboratory of Aquatic Photobiology and Plankton Ecology; Institute of Zoology and Limnology, University of Innsbruck, Technikerstr. 25, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: zliu{at}niglas.ac.cn.


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Here we report the finding of two mycosporine-like amino acids (shinorine and Porphyra-334) in both a culture of the cyanobacterium Microcystis aeruginosa isolated from Lake Taihu (China) and a natural phytoplankton sample collected from this lake which included Microcystis spp. Our results are the first to clearly document the occurrence of these UV-sunscreen compounds in a freshwater bloomforming cyanobacterium.


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