Potent toxins in Arctic environments : presence of saxitoxins and an unusual microcystin variant in Arctic freshwater ecosystems

• Published in: Chemico-Biological Interactions
• Main Authors: Kleinteich, Julia, Wood, Susanna A, Puddick, Jonathan, Schleheck, David, Kuepper, Frithjof Christian, Dietrich, Daniel
• Other Authors: University of Aberdeen.Marine Alliance for Science and Technology for Scotland (MASTS), University of Aberdeen.Biological Sciences
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: SDG 13 - Climate Action; SDG 15 - Life on Land; Arctic Regions; Bacterial Proteins; Chromatography; High Pressure Liquid; Cyanobacteria; Ecosystem; Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay; Fresh Water; Mass Spectrometry; Microcystins; Phylogeny; RNA; Messenger; Ribosomal; 16S; Saxitoxin; Gene Analysis; Cyanobacterial mats; Arctic; climate change; QH301 Biology; Natural Environment Research Council (NERC); European Commission; 227788; QH301; Association of Polar Early Career Scientists; Baffin Island; Baffin; Climate change
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2164/4036; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cbi.2013.04.011

Copyright © 2013 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved. We would like to acknowledge the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)-funded project DI698/18-1 Dietrich. We are grateful to the TOTAL Foundation (Paris) and the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC, WP 4.3 of Oceans 2025 core funding to FCK at the Scottish Association for Marine Science) for funding the expedition to Baffin Island and within this context Olivier Dargent, Nice, France, and Dr. Pieter van West, University of Aberdeen, UK, for collecting and photographing Arctic cyanobacterial communities in Baffin Island. We would also like to thank the Carl Zeiss Stiftung and the Excellence Initiative of the University of Konstanz, Germany, for funding the PhD project of J.K. and APECS (Association of Polar Early Career Scientists) for their educational support. Furthermore, we acknowledge the support of the European Community research infrastructure action under the FP7 ‘capacities’ specific program ASSEMBLE No. 227788. For assistance with the microcystin thiol derivatization we would like to thank Dr. Chris Miles (Norwegian Veterinary Institute, Norway). For technical support and new ideas we are very grateful to Heinke Bastek, Kathrin Leinweber and Lisa Zimmermann from the University of Konstanz, Germany, Martina Sattler, University of Jena, Germany, and Dr. Anne Jungblut from the Natural History Museum, London, UK as well as Wendy Jackson (University of Waikato, New Zealand) for valued technical assistance Peer reviewed