Oscillatoria

Oscillatoria are the subject of research into the natural production of butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT), an antioxidant, food additive, and industrial chemical. Cyclic peptides called venturamides, which may have anti-malarial activity, have been isolated from bacteria in this genus. They are the first peptides with this activity to have been found in cyanobacteria. Serinolamide A is a cannabinoid structurally related to Anandamide that has been found to occur in Oscillatoria species. == Species ==

Oscillatoria contains the following species: • Oscillatoria amoena (Kützing) Gomont • Oscillatoria anguiformis (P. González Guerrero) Anagnostidis • Oscillatoria anguina Bory ex Gomont • Oscillatoria annae van Goor • Oscillatoria bonnemaisonii (P. L. Crouan & H. M. Crouan) P. L. Crouan & H. M. Crouan ex Gomont • Oscillatoria brevis Kützing ex Gomont • Oscillatoria chalybea Mertens ex Gomont • Oscillatoria chilkensis Biswas • Oscillatoria crassa (Rao) Anagnostidis • Oscillatoria croasdaleae Kamat • Oscillatoria curviceps C. Agardh ex Gomont • Oscillatoria depauperata (Copeland) Anagnostidis • Oscillatoria engelmanniana Gaidukov • Oscillatoria euboeica Anagnostidis • Oscillatoria fischeri Corda ex Forti • Oscillatoria fracta Carlson • Oscillatoria froelichii Kützing ex Gomont • Oscillatoria funiformis (Vouk) Komárek • Oscillatoria indica P. C. Silva • Oscillatoria jenensis G. Schmid • Oscillatoria levis (Gardner) Anagnostidis • Oscillatoria limosa C. Agardh ex Gomont • Oscillatoria limnetica Lemmermann • Oscillatoria mahabaleshwarensis Kamat • Oscillatoria major Vaucher ex Hansgirg • Oscillatoria margaritifera Kützing ex Gomont • Oscillatoria miniata (Zanardini) Hauck ex Gomont • Oscillatoria minutissima P. González • Oscillatoria muralis (Dillwyn) C. Agardh • Oscillatoria nitida Schkorbatov • Oscillatoria nylstromica Claassen • Oscillatoria obscura Brühl & Biswas • Oscillatoria olivaceobrunnea L. Hoffmann & V. Demoulin • Oscillatoria princeps Vaucher ex Gomont • Oscillatoria proboscidea Gomont • Oscillatoria pulchra Lindstedt • Oscillatoria rhamphoidea Anagnostidis • Oscillatoria ribeyi F. E. Drouet • Oscillatoria rubescens De Candolle ex Gomont • Oscillatoria sancta Kützing ex Gomont • Oscillatoria subbrevis Schmidle • Oscillatoria subcapitata Ponomarev • Oscillatoria tapetiformis Zenker ex Gomont • Oscillatoria tenioides (Bory de Saint-Vincent) Bory de Saint-Vincent ex Gomont • Oscillatoria trichoides Szafer • Oscillatoria versicolor G. Martens ex Prain • Oscillatoria willei N. L. Gardner ==References==