Cyanobacteria

Cyanobacteria

View the organism: different Cyanobacteria (courtesy D. Kunkel), more images (courtesy Tree of Life) Pictures free to download (Uni Frankfurt), index of pictures of different genera (Ohio Uni).

Collection sites, home-pages

Cyanosite, a web server for Cyanobacterial research (MA Schneegurt)
Collection site on Algea as part of the Internet Directory for Botany (Finnish Museum of Botany, Helsinki)
Collection site of the Tree of Life
The Toxic Cyanobacteria homepage (Ben Long)
Collection site on photosynthesis on the WWW (Arizona State Uni)
Home page of PROMOLEC, molecular ecology of the photosynthetic procaryote prochlorococcus

Fact sheets, consumer guides, general information

General introduction on cyanobacteria (The Museum of Paleontology, Uni California)
Do Photosynthetic Algae (cyanobacteria) Respond to CO2 Change? The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
Cyanobacteria described in the Kingdom Monera
Cyanobacteria, a short and concise description (Xrefer)
Cyanobacteria in the BiologyPapers (J Kimball)
Cyanobacteria and biological clocks, press release (scienceDaily)
Cyanobacteria in symbiosis with cycads (BW Cheek) and physiology of cyanobacteria living with cycads (Palm and Cycad Soc. FA)
Can cyanobacteria provide a cure for AIDS? (OSC inc)
Dealing with Cyanobacteria in aquariums (AJ Thiel)
Medicines from algae: marine resources for human health solutionSea Grant News Media Center
Reef organisms National Oceanographic Data Center
Blue-green algae and theri toxins (Health Canada) or Cyanobacteria poisoning (by CL Stoltenow)
Pictures!Photo's!Piccy of real stromatolites!, Fossile records of Cyanobacteria (Uni Texas Bio 303)
Adaptive cyanobacteria (US Global Change Research Information Office)

Lectures

Cyanobacteria and Green sulfur bacteria (DA Bryant)
Red slime algae and cyanobacteria (NetPets)
The Cyanobacteria (Uni Western Cape)
Bacteriology of cyanobacteria (Uni Maryland)
The Microbial World: cyanobacteria (Uni Edinburgh)
Removal of Nitrate from Groundwater by Cyanobacteria (D. Callagher)

Scientific papers

Light regulated transcription in bacteria (Uni Newfoundland)
Blue-green algae of fresh-water lakes (Soil and Water conservation society)
Environmental effects of ozone depletion (SEDAC)

Scientific links

Taxonomy of cyanobacteria (after Stanier, 1977) and after Rippka (1979) (Cyanosite)
Cyanobase: the genome sequence of synechocystis (Kazusa Japan)
Pasteur culture collection of cyanobacteria
Cyanofix (a European network)

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Last modified: 26 Feb 2003

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