Toxic bloom of Pseudo-nitzschia cuspidata (Bacillariophyceae) and domoic acid contamination of bivalve molluscs in Malaysia Borneo
| Autor: | Suh Nih Tan, Afiqah Halmiton Hanifah, Chunlei Gao, Ing Kuo Law, Sing Tung Teng, Chui Pin Leaw, Po Teen Lim, Nursyahida Abdullah |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Kainic Acid
biology Harmful Algal Bloom fungi Malaysia Domoic acid Plankton Toxicology biology.organism_classification Algal bloom Bivalvia chemistry.chemical_compound chemistry Abundance (ecology) Borneo Tandem Mass Spectrometry Amnesic shellfish poisoning Botany Animals Bloom Pseudo-nitzschia Shellfish Phylogeny Chromatography Liquid |
| Zdroj: | Toxicon : official journal of the International Society on Toxinology. 202 |
| ISSN: | 1879-3150 |
| Popis: | In March 2018, an algal bloom of Pseudo-nitzschia was detected, for the first time, in a semi-enclosed lagoon in Miri, Sarawak, Malaysia Borneo. The plankton samples were collected for cell enumeration and species identification by electron microscopy and molecular characterization. Liquid chromatography coupled with tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) was performed to detect and quantify the neurotoxin domoic acid (DA) in both the plankton and shellfish samples. The abundance of Pseudo-nitzschia cells ranged from 5.6 × 105 to 3.5 × 106 cell L-1 during the bloom event. Morphological observation of the cells by transmission electron microscopy showed that the plankton samples comprised a single Pseudo-nitzschia morphotype resembling P. cuspidata. The ITS2 sequence-structure phylogenetic inference further supported the species identity as Pseudo-nitzschia cuspidata. Low levels of DA were detected in the plankton samples, with cellular DA, particulate DA, and dissolved DA of 257–504 fg DA cell-1, 676 ng L-1, and 15 ng L-1, respectively. The amount of DA, 8 μg g-1 tissue, was found present in the shellfish sample (Magallana sp.) which is below the regulatory limit of 20 μg DA g-1 tissue. The study documented, for the first time, DA contamination in shellfish that associated with bloom of P. cuspidata in the Western Pacific region. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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