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Hydrobiological Journal

ISSN for PRINT: 0018-8166

Institutional price:	$1994.00
Issues per year:	6

Best Paper Award Selection - Editorial Board Site

2003, Volume39

123 pages

Issue price - $369.00

Peculiarities of Ammonium Nitrogen Assimilation in Green and Blue-Green Algae

P. D. Klochenko
Institute of Hydrobiology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 12, Geroyev Stalingrada Pr., 04210 Kiev, Ukraine

V. V. Grubinko
Ternopol National Pedagogic University, Ternopol, Ukraine

G. B. Gumenyuk
Institute of Hydrobiology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev; Ukraine Ternopil State Pedagogical University, Ternopil, Ukraine

O. M. Arsan
Institute of Hydrobiology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine

ABSTRACT

It was found that representatives of Chlorophyta, as distinct from Cyanophyta, are peculiar in having a highly effective pathway involved in detoxification of ammonia. Specific peculiarities as to ammonium nitrogen transformation are the basis of one of the mechanisms regulating ecological successions of species in freshwater algal communities.