Table 4.

The Incidence of Microcystin and its producers in the aquatic environments of Mozambique. PL—Pequenos Libombos dam, NL—Nhambavale lake, CH—Chòkwé irrigation channels, RFLP—restriction fragment length polymorphism, MC—microcystins, ELISA—enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, CG—Chidengule, LM—light microscope, PCR— polymerase chain reaction, ML—Malawi lake, NL— Niassa lake.

Local	Date	Producer		MC			Reference
		Species	Detection	MC Variant	Detection	Conc.
PL	2008–2009	Microcystis sp.	PC gene	LR and YR	LC-MS	3.9 ng·g−1	[118]
		Microcystis sp.	MCyA-MISY gene
		Microcystis sp.	MCyB gene
		Microcystis sp.	RFLP
NL		Microcystis sp.	PC gene	LR, YR and RR		159.4 ng·g−1
		Microcystis sp.	MCyA-MISY gene
		Microcystis sp.	MCyB gene
		Microcystis sp.	RFLP
CH		Microcystis sp.	PC gene	LR		2.7 ng·g−1
		negative	MCyA-MISY gene
		negative	MCyB gene
		negative	RFLP
PL	2002		LM	MC	ELISA	0.22 µg·L−1	[120]
CH		Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii				< 0.01 µg·L−1
CG		Microcystis novacekii and M. botrys				6.83 µg·L−1
PL	2008–2009			LR	LC-MS	< 0.01 µg·L−1	[117]
				YR		0.01 µg·L−1
CH				LR		0.68 µg·L−1
				YR		0.06 µg·L−1
NL				LR		7.78 µg·L−1
				YR		0.07 µg·L−1
				RR		< 0.01 µg·L−1
PL	2008–2009	Microcystis aeruginosa	PC gene				[119]
			MCyB-Taq-Nuclease assay
NL			PC gene
			MCyB-Taq-Nuclease assay
CH			PC gene
			MCyB-Taq-Nuclease assay
ML/NL	2002	Anabaena sp.	LM				[143]
NKP	2007	Microcystis aeruginosa	PCR	LR	ELISA	23718 μg·L−1	[132]