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  • BBM

    Reference: Stein, J. 1973. (Ed.) Handbook of Phycological methods. Culture methods and growth measurements. Cambridge University Press. 448 pp.

  • BG-11

    Reference: Rippka, R., Deruelles, J., Waterbury, J., Herdman, M., and Stanier, R. 1979. Generic assignments, strain histories and properties of pure cultures of cyanobacteria. J. Gen. Microbiol . 111: 1-61

  • CHU-10

    Reference: Stein, J. (Ed.) 1973. Handbook of Phycological methods. Culture methods and growth measurements. Cambridge University Press. 448 pp.

  • ESAW

    Reference: Harrison, P. J., Waters, R., and Taylor, F. J. R. 1980. A broad spectrum artificial seawater medium for coastal and open ocean phytoplankton. J. Phycol. 16: 28-35.

  • HOAGLAND's E+

    Reference: Cowgill, U. M. and Milazzo, D. P. 1989. Aquatic Toxicology and Hazard Assessment. 12th volume. ASTM STP 1027. pp. 379-391.

  • HIGH SALT MEDIUM (HSM)

    Reference: Sueoka, N., Chiang, K. S. and Kates, J. R. (1967) Deoxyribonucleic acid replication in meiosis of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.I. Isotopic transfer experiments with a strain producing eight zoospores. J. Mol. Biol. 25: 44-67.

  • MODIFIED ACID MEDIUM

    Reference: Olaveson, Mary M. and Stokes, Pamela M. 1989. Responses of the acidophilic alga Euglena mutabilis (Euglenophyceae) to carbon enrichment at pH 3. Journal of Phycology . 25: 529-539.

  • MUSKOKA MEDIUM (M169)

    Reference: Wehr, J., Brown, L. and O'Grady, K. 1985. Physiological ecology of the bloom-forming alga Chrysochromulina breviturrita (Prymnesiophyceae) from lakes influenced by acid precipitation. Can J. Bot. 63: 2231-2239.

  • F/2 VITAMIN

    Reference: Guillard, R. R. L. and Ryther, J. H. 1962. Studies of marine planktonic diatoms. I. Cyclotella nana Hustedt and Detonula confervacea Cleve. Can. J. Microbiol. 8: 229-239.