Makoto M. Watanabe

TL;DR: A mouse bioassay did not show lethal toxicity when tested at doses up to 1500 mg dry weight cells·kg−1 body weight within 96 h, demonstrating that production of primarily deoxy‐CYN does not lead to significant mouse toxicity by strain HB1, and suggests that Raphidiopsis belongs to the Nostocaceae, but this requires confirmation by molecular systematic studies.

TL;DR: A polyphasic approach was used to clarify the taxonomy of the water-bloom-forming oscillatorioid cyanobacteria and proposed either emended or new taxonomic descriptions for Planktothrix agardhii, PlankTothrix rubescens, and Limnothrix redekei.

TL;DR: Derived maximum likelihood and DNA distance trees indicated that Microcystis can be divided into three clusters, andPhylogenetic analysis based on intergenic spacer sequences was thought to be effective for understanding relationships among closely related species and strains.

TL;DR: Genomic DNA homologies were examined from six Microcystis (cyanobacteria) strains, including five different species, and it is proposed to unify these five species into M. aeruginosa.

TL;DR: This is the first report from Asia of a CYN, deoxy-CYN producing Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii, and it is feared that this strain may contain CYN/CYN hybrids.