Means and methods for classifying cyanobacteria

摘要

The present invention is concerned with the typing of cyanobacteria. Methods and nucleic acids for use therein are presented with which preparations comprising a cyanobacterium can be tested and the cyanobacterium therein classified. The classification can be used to correlate the cyanobacterium in the preparation to a pheno- and genotypic characteristics known for the typed strain. This information is useful in the variety of different applications, for instance in predicting and/or characterising toxic blooms of cyanobacteria in surface water bodies.