Rôles of temperature, salinity, and light in seasonality, growth, and toxicity of ciguatera-causing Gambierdiscus toxicus Adachi et Fukuyo (Dinophyceae)

Autor: Robert R.L. Guillard, Jeffrey W. Bomber, Walter G. Nelson
Rok vydání: 1988
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Zdroj: Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 115:53-65
ISSN: 0022-0981
DOI: 10.1016/0022-0981(88)90189-x
Popis: The ciguatera-causing dinoflagellate Gambierdiscus toxicus Adachi et Fukuyo reached maximum abundance in the Florida Keys when the water temperature was ≈ 30°C; populations were over half maximum when temperature lay in the interval 27–30°C. In laboratory unialgal culture experiments, temperatures >29 and 1.4 × 1016 quanta.cm-2 · s-1 (≈ 11% of full sunlight). Under optimum combinations of the aformentioned parameters, growth rates > 0.5 division · day-14 could be sustained and led to unusually high yields in large scale cultures of up to 360 mg (dry weight) · 1-1. Cultures grown at 27°C were more toxic than those at 21°C (3515 ± 500 cells · MU-1 vs. 16536 ± 2400 cells · MU-1, sd). Cultures were also still capable of producing toxins at inhibiting high irradiance levels.
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