Research Article

Occurrence of Harmful Algal Blooms in Freshwater Sources of Mindu and Nyumba ya Mungu Dams, Tanzania

Table 2

Identities of the 16S rRNA gene for blue-green algae obtained from Mindu Dam samples.

Sequences from this studySequences from the GeneBank
Type of samples1The location where samples were collected2RegionAssigned isolate namesAccession numbers3Closest related species in GenBankQuery cover (%)Identities (%)4

ABMDMorogoroTZ: MO-MDS1OP297379Antarctic cyanobacterium (Accession no. AY151723.1) Leptolyngbya sp100100
(Accession no. KT753322.1)
ABMDMorogoroTZ: MO-MDS2OP297380Uncultured bacterium (Accession no. LC257556.1)10099
ABMDMorogoroTZ: MO-MDS3OP297381Anabaena sp. (Accession no. HE975015.1)100100
ABMDMorogoroTZ: MO-MDS5OP297382Microcystis aeruginosa (Accession no. LC557463.1)10098

1AB: algal bloom; 2MD: Mindu Dam; 3refers to accession numbers issued by NCBI following the submission of the nucleotide sequences; 4the automatically generated identities obtained using BLAST in GenBank hosted by NCBI.