C yanotoxins: producing organisms, occurrence, toxicity, mechanism of action and human health toxicological risk evaluation

FM Buratti, M Manganelli, S Vichi, M Stefanelli… - Archives of …, 2017 - Springer
Cyanobacteria were present on the earth 3.5 billion years ago; since then they have
colonized almost all terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. They produce a high number of …

Assessing risks and mitigating impacts of harmful algal blooms on mariculture and marine fisheries

AR Brown, M Lilley, J Shutler, C Lowe… - Reviews in …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Aquaculture is the fastest growing food sector globally and protein provisioning from
aquaculture now exceeds that from wild capture fisheries. There is clear potential for the …

The globally distributed genus Alexandrium: multifaceted roles in marine ecosystems and impacts on human health

DM Anderson, TJ Alpermann, AD Cembella, Y Collos… - Harmful algae, 2012 - Elsevier
The dinoflagellate genus Alexandrium is one of the major harmful algal bloom (HAB) genera
with respect to the diversity, magnitude and consequences of blooms. The ability of …

Phosphorus physiological ecology and molecular mechanisms in marine phytoplankton

S Lin, RW Litaker, WG Sunda - Journal of Phycology, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Phosphorus (P) is an essential nutrient for marine phytoplankton and indeed all life forms.
Current data show that P availability is growth‐limiting in certain marine systems and can …

Tetrodotoxin, an extremely potent marine neurotoxin: Distribution, toxicity, origin and therapeutical uses

J Lago, LP Rodríguez, L Blanco, JM Vieites… - Marine drugs, 2015 - mdpi.com
Tetrodotoxin (TTX) is a potent neurotoxin responsible for many human intoxications and
fatalities each year. The origin of TTX is unknown, but in the pufferfish, it seems to be …

Formal revision of the Alexandrium tamarense species complex (Dinophyceae) taxonomy: the introduction of five species with emphasis on molecular-based (rDNA) …

U John, RW Litaker, M Montresor, S Murray… - Protist, 2014 - Elsevier
The Alexandrium tamarense species complex is one of the most studied marine
dinoflagellate groups due to its ecological, toxicological and economic importance. Several …

Cyanobacterial toxins: biosynthetic routes and evolutionary roots

E Dittmann, DP Fewer, BA Neilan - FEMS microbiology reviews, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Cyanobacteria produce an unparalleled variety of toxins that can cause severe health
problems or even death in humans, and wild or domestic animals. In the last decade …

An overview on the marine neurotoxin, saxitoxin: genetics, molecular targets, methods of detection and ecological functions

KD Cusick, GS Sayler - Marine Drugs, 2013 - mdpi.com
Marine neurotoxins are natural products produced by phytoplankton and select species of
invertebrates and fish. These compounds interact with voltage-gated sodium, potassium and …

Probing the evolution, ecology and physiology of marine protists using transcriptomics

DA Caron, H Alexander, AE Allen… - Nature Reviews …, 2017 - nature.com
Protists, which are single-celled eukaryotes, critically influence the ecology and chemistry of
marine ecosystems, but genome-based studies of these organisms have lagged behind …

Genomic copy number variability at the genus, species and population levels impacts in situ ecological analyses of dinoflagellates and harmful algal blooms

R Ruvindy, A Barua, CJS Bolch, C Sarowar… - ISME …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The application of meta-barcoding, qPCR, and metagenomics to aquatic eukaryotic
microbial communities requires knowledge of genomic copy number variability (CNV). CNV …