CHARACTERIZATION OF OSTREOPSIS AND COOLIA (DINOPHYCEAE) ISOLATES IN THE WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEA BASED ON MORPHOLOGY, TOXICITY AND INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 5.8S rDNA SEQUENCES 1
- A. Penna, Magda Vila, C. Vernesi
- Environmental Science
- 1 February 2005
In this study, genetic markers combined with morphology and toxicity analyses was useful in the taxonomic and phylogenetic studies of the Ostreopsidaceae in a temperate area.
Dinophysis Toxins: Causative Organisms, Distribution and Fate in Shellfish
- B. Reguera, P. Riobó, J. Blanco
- Environmental ScienceMarine Drugs
- 1 January 2014
Several Dinophysis species produce diarrhoetic toxins (okadaic acid and dinophysistoxins) and pectenotoxins, and cause gastointestinal illness, Diarrhetic Shellfish Poisoning (DSP), even at low cell…
Production and release of yessotoxins by the dinoflagellates Protoceratium reticulatum and Lingulodinium polyedrum in culture.
- B. Paz, P. Riobó, M. Fernández, S. Fraga, J. Franco
- BiologyToxicon
- 1 September 2004
Yessotoxins, a Group of Marine Polyether Toxins: an Overview
- B. Paz, A. Daranas, M. Norte, P. Riobó, J. Franco, J. J. Fernández
- Biology, Environmental ScienceMarine Drugs
- 1 March 2008
Current knowledge on the origin, producer organisms and vectors, chemical structures, metabolism, biosynthetic origin, toxicological properties, potential risks to human health and advances in detection methods of YTXs are covered.
A phylogeographical study of the toxic benthic dinoflagellate genus Ostreopsis Schmidt
- A. Penna, S. Fraga, C. Vernesi
- Environmental Science, Biology
- 1 May 2010
Here, sequence variability in ribosomal DNA markers are analysed to provide the first phylogeographical study of this toxic benthic dinoflagellate.
The growth, toxicity and genetic characterization of seven strains of Alexandrium catenella (Whedon and Kofoid) Balech 1985 (Dinophyceae) isolated during the 2009 summer outbreak in southern Chile
- Alejandra Aguilera-Belmonte, Ingrid Inostroza, J. Franco, P. Riobó, P. Gómez
- Biology, Environmental Science
- 1 December 2011
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