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African Origin and Europe-Mediated Global Dispersal of The Cyanobacterium Microcystis aeruginosa

Overview of attention for article published in Current Microbiology, June 2014
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Title
African Origin and Europe-Mediated Global Dispersal of The Cyanobacterium Microcystis aeruginosa
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Current Microbiology, June 2014
DOI 10.1007/s00284-014-0628-2
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Cristiana Moreira, Charles Spillane, Afef Fathalli, Vitor Vasconcelos, Agostinho Antunes

Abstract

Microcystis aeruginosa is a bloom-forming cyanobacteria, which currently has a cosmopolitan distribution. Since M. aeruginosa can produce toxic compounds across all continents that it inhabits, it is of major public health relevance to assess its origin and dispersal. Thus, we conducted a worldwide study using 29 isolates representative of all the main continents, and used a concatenated genetic system for phylogenetic analyses consisting of four genetic markers (spanning ca. 3,485 bp). Our results support an early origin of M. aeruginosa in the African continent, with a subsequent dispersal to establish a second genetic pool in the European continent, from where M. aeruginosa then colonized the remaining continental regions. Our findings indicate that the European population has a cosmopolitan distribution, and is genetically closer to populations from Africa and North America. Our study also highlights the utility of using a concatenated dataset for phylogenetic inferences in cyanobacteria.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 25 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 7 28%
Professor 2 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 8%
Other 2 8%
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 8%
Other 5 20%
Unknown 5 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 6 24%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 4 16%
Immunology and Microbiology 3 12%
Environmental Science 2 8%
Social Sciences 1 4%
Other 1 4%
Unknown 8 32%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 22 June 2014.
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#15,302,068
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#1,405
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#133,863
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Outputs of similar age from Current Microbiology
#8
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