1. Discovery of the toxic dinoflagellate Pfiesteria in northern European waters.
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Jakobsen KS, Tengs T, Vatne A, Bowers HA, Oldach DW, Burkholder JM, Glasgow HB Jr, Rublee PA, and Klaveness D
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- Animals, Atlantic Ocean, DNA, Protozoan analysis, DNA, Ribosomal analysis, Dinoflagellida classification, Dinoflagellida genetics, Europe, Norway, Pfiesteria piscicida classification, Pfiesteria piscicida genetics, Phylogeny, RNA, Ribosomal, 18S analysis, Dinoflagellida isolation & purification, Pfiesteria piscicida isolation & purification, Seawater parasitology
- Abstract
Several dinoflagellate strains of the genus Pfiesteria were isolated by culturing techniques from sediment samples taken in the Oslofjord region of Norway. Pfiesteria piscicida, well known as a fish killer from the Atlantic coast of America, was identified by genetic methods and light microscopy. The related species Pfiesteria shumwayae was attracted from the sediment by the presence of fish, and has proved toxic. This present survey demonstrates the wide distribution of these potentially harmful species, but so far they have not been connected with fish kills in Europe.
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- 2002
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