Marine microorganisms are presented with unique challenges to obtain essential metal ions
required to survive and thrive in the ocean. The production of organic ligands to complex …

Organic Cu-binding ligands have a fundamental influence on Cu distributions in the global
ocean and they complex> 99% of the dissolved Cu in seawater. Cu-binding ligands …

The targets of heavy metal (here Cu2+ and Zn2+) attack on the photosynthetic apparatus of
algae belonging to different phyla were investigated. Experiments with the green alga …

Ocean warming (OW), ocean acidification (OA) and their interaction with local drivers, eg,
copper pollution, may negatively affect macroalgae and their microscopic life stages. We …

The effects of five metals, copper (Cu), chromium (Cr), Zinc (Zn), cadmium (Cd) and lead
(Pb), on photosynthetic activity, measured as pulse amplitude modulation (PAM) chlorophyll …

Toxigenic species of the pennate diatom Pseudo-nitzschia can produce domoic acid (DA),
an analog of the excitatory neurotransmitter glutamate and known to cause the human …

Although native macroalgae have been used for biomonitoring purposes since the 1950s, a
standardized protocol that would enable widespread implementation of the technique has …

Low recycling rates of rare earth elements (REEs) are a consequence of inefficient,
expensive and/or contaminating methods currently available for their extraction from solid …

In order to analyze the involvement of intracellular thiol-chelators in the accumulation and
detoxification of copper, the marine alga Ulva compressa was cultivated with increasing …

Here it is demonstrated that both Porphyra spp. and Enteromorpha spp. of macro-algae
display similar and very marked seasonal variations in their concentration factor (CF) of Cu …