Several species of microalgae can produce potent phycotoxins that negatively affect aquatic
organisms and their consumers following different exposure routes, as well as toxicokinetic …

A recently published study analyzed the phylogenetic relationship between the genera
Centrodinium and Alexandrium, confirming an earlier publication showing the genus …

Salinity is an important factor for regulating metabolic processes in aquatic organisms;
however, its effects on toxicity and STX biosynthesis gene responses in dinoflagellates …

Paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) caused the deaths of four people in coastal area of
Korea, mainly Jinhae-Masan Bay and adjacent areas, in April 1986 and in 1996. The PSP …

Centrodinium punctatum is a fusiform dinoflagellate with a global marine distribution. Due to
a close phylogenetic relationship of one C. punctatum strain to Alexandrium species, toxin …

Investigation of phytoplankton from East China Sea of the Pacific Ocean, offshore Réunion
Island of the Indian Ocean, and the French Atlantic coast revealed a species of poorly known …

The marine dinoflagellate Alexandrium is known to form harmful algal blooms (HABs) and
produces saxitoxin (STX) and its derivatives (STXs) that cause paralytic shellfish poisoning …

In the current circumscription, the Thoracosphaeraceae comprise all dinophytes exhibiting
calcified coccoid cells produced during their life-history. Species hitherto assigned to …

To understand environmental effects affecting paralytic shellfish toxin production of
Centrodinium punctatum, this study examined the growth responses, and toxin contents and …

The marine dinoflagellate Alexandrium is known to form harmful algal blooms, and at least
14 species within the genus can produce saxitoxins (STXs). STX biosynthesis genes (sxt) …