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PARKER, DOROTHY

Research Associate

Degrees:

  • B.S., University of South Dakota
  • M.S., University of California, Berkeley
  • Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Research Interests:

  • Adsorption of metals by microbes and polysaccharides
  • Oxidation and reduction of metals by microbes
  • Biology of cyanobacteria
  • Manganophores


Home Department:
GRD

Mailing Address:
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla CA, 92093
Mail Code: 0202

Email: doparker@ucsd.edu


Scripps Scholars Profile: http://scrippsscholars.ucsd.edu/doparker

Publications:

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1997. Potassium salts inhibit growth of the cyanobacteria Microcystis spp. in pond water and defined media. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 63:2324-2329.

1998. Effect of cellular metabolism and viability on metal ion accumulation by cultured biomass from a bloom of the cyanobacterium Microcystis aeruginosa. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 64:1545-1547.

2000. Sorption of metals by extracellular polymers from the cyanobacterium Microcystis aeruginosa. Journal of Applied Phycology 12:219-224.

2001. Detection of toxigenicity by a probe for the microcystin synthetase gene (MCYA) of the cyanobacterial genus Microcystis: Comparison of toxicities with 16S rRNA and phycocyanin operon phylogenies. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 67:2810-2818.