Heteroxanthin as a pigment biomarker for Gonyostomum semen (Raphidophyceae).

ABSTRACT: The ability to identify drivers responsible for algal community shifts is an important aspect of environmental issues. The lack of long-term datasets, covering periods prior to these shifts, is often limiting our understanding of drivers responsible. The freshwater alga, Gonyostomum semen (Raphidophyceae), has significantly increased distribution and mass occurrences in Scandinavian lakes during the past few decades, often releasing a skin irritating slime that causes discomfort for swimmers. While the alga has been extensively studied, long-term data from individual lakes are often absent or greatly limited and drivers behind this species' success are still not clear. However, if specific and persistent taxa biomarkers for G. semen could be detected in dated sediment cores, long-term data

SUBMITTER: Hagman CHC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6919615 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature