摘要
The study of community composition of algae is essential for understanding the structure and dynamics of the aquatic ecosystem and for evaluating the eutrophic level of the water body.A high-performance liquid chromatographic(HPLC)method based on a reversephase C_(18) nonpolar column was developed for the main algal taxa,which includes cyanophytes,bacillariophytes,euglenophytes,dinophytes,and chlorophytes.Based on the elution order using HPLC,19 pigments were identified,and they were chlorophyllide a,19′-butanoyloxyfucoxanthin,chlorophyll c_(1)+c_(2),phephorbides a,peridinin,methyl-chlorophyllide a,fucoxanthin,neoxanthin,violaxanthin,myxoxanthophyll,diadinoxanthin,diatoxanthin,lutein,zeaxanthin,chlorophyll b allomer,chlorophyll b,chlorophyll a allomer,chlorophyll a,andβ,β-carotene.A comparison study of cell microscopic counts and accessory pigment analysis indicated that HPLC analysis could be a useful tool for monitoring phytoplankton communities and their abundance.
基金
This work was supported by grants from the National Key Science Research Project of Eleven Five-Year Plan(Nos.2009ZX07106-003 and 2008ZX07316-004)
Tianjin Project of CAS(No.TJZX2-YW-07)
Jiangsu Province project(No.BE2008651)
Agricultural Science and Technology Achievement Transformation Project(No.2009GB2A100015).