Across the European Atlantic Arc (Scotland, Ireland, England, France, Spain, and Portugal)
the shellfish aquaculture industry is dominated by the production of mussels, followed by …

Saxitoxin is an alkaloid neurotoxin originally isolated from the clam Saxidomus giganteus in
1957. This group of neurotoxins is produced by several species of freshwater cyanobacteria …

Marine phytoplankton play important roles in the global ecosystem, with a limited number of
cosmopolitan keystone species driving their biomass. Recent studies have revealed that …

De novo transcriptome assembly is a powerful tool, and has been widely used over the last
decade for making evolutionary inferences. However, it relies on two implicit assumptions …

Alexandrium minutum is a globally distributed harmful algal bloom species with many strains
that are known to produce paralytic shellfish toxins (PST s) and consequently represent a …

Oceanic phytoplankton species are generally composed of many strains, with intra-species
diversity consisting of genetic and phenotypic variability. Despite its importance in ecological …

Paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) is a human foodborne syndrome caused by the
consumption of shellfish that accumulate paralytic shellfish toxins (PSTs, saxitoxin group). In …

Many benthic dinoflagellates are known or suspected producers of lipophilic polyether
phycotoxins, particularly in tropical and subtropical coastal zones. These toxins are …

Dinoflagellates are dominant members of the plankton and play key roles in ocean
ecosystems as primary producers, predators, parasites, coral photobionts, and causative …

The allopatric model, which requires a period of geographical isolation for speciation to
complete, has been the standard model in the modern era. Recently,“speciation with gene …