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Lake Tai, China
Lake Tai (or as it is known to the local, Taihu) is the third largest lake in China - over 30 million people rely on it as a source of potable water and for various aquaculture, industrial and transportation purposes. Over the last few years though it has been inundated with massive algal bloom dominated by the potentially toxic cyanobacterium Microcystis. Dr. Jennifer DeBruyn and Ms Sarah Farnsley accompanied Professor Steven Wilhelm, all from the University of Tennessee, to Taihu in May 2009 to collect samples from the lake in order to begin to develop an understanding of the factors that control the proliferation of these toxic algae.
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Microcystis produces a hepatoxin that causes significant problems for wildlife and husbandry animals and, if consumed, for humans. Indeed reports from Taihu suggest toxin levels reach 1000x the World Health Organization's drinking water limit. |
The UltraClean® Microbial DNA Isolation Kit was Professor Wilhelm and his team's kit of choice: " We chose to use MO BIO products as they appear to give us the best yield of PCR quality DNA from this tough-to-lyse organism."
