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Review: a meta-analysis comparing cell-division and cell-adhesion in Microcystis colony formation.

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A meta-analysis showed that in laboratory experiments, colony formation by cell-division was mainly induced by zooplankton filtrate, high Pb2+ concentrations, the presence of the cyanobacterium Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii, heterotrophic bacteria, and low temperature and low light intensities.
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This article is published in Harmful Algae.The article was published on 2017-07-01 and is currently open access. It has received 48 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Microcystis & Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii.

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Colony formation in the cyanobacterium Microcystis

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Q1. What are the contributions mentioned in the paper "Review: a meta-analysis comparing cell-division and cell- adhesion in microcystis colony formation author" ?

Li et al. this paper proposed a method to induce colony formation of Microcystis by secreted extracellular polymeric substances. 

This is because zooplankton grazing 185 reduces the total cell biomass during the first couple of experimental days, thus t0 was 186 selected as the time of minimum biomass in the zooplankton grazing experiments. 

Once 332 Microcystis colonies reach a certain size (> 50 μm), their microcystin production 333 increases and correlates with a further increase in colony size (Wang et al., 2013). 

Abiotic factors in colony formation: effects of nutrition and 563 light on extracellular polysaccharide production and cell aggregates of 564 Microcystis aeruginosa. 

Complexity of cyanobacterial exopolysaccharides: composition, 500 structures, inducing factors and putative genes involved in their biosynthesis 501 and assembly. 

While colony morphology plays an important role in the bloom formation of this 92 species, studies of Microcystis colony formation are hindered by the fact that 93 Microcystis in cultures typically remain as single cells (Yang et al., 2008; Li et al., 94 2013c). 

Divalent cations stabilize the 441 aggregation of sulfated glycoproteins in the adhesive nanofibers of the 442 biofouling diatom Toxarium undulatum. 

This process can occur more quickly than cell292 division, and assumes an adhesive bEPS can quickly be employed or secreted by the 293 single cells to allow adhesion to each other.