Discovery of the toxic dinoflagellate Pfiesteria in northern European waters.
Several dinoflagellate strains of the genus Pfiesteria were isolated by culturing techniques from sediment samples taken in the Oslofjord region of Norway. Pfiesteria piscicida, well known as a fish killer from the Atlantic coast of America, was identified by genetic methods and light microscopy. The related species Pfiesteria shumwayae was attracted from the sediment by the presence of fish, and has proved toxic. This present survey demonstrates the wide distribution of these potentially harmful species, but so far they have not been connected with fish kills in Europe.
Jakobsen
Kjetill S
KS
Department of Biology, University of Oslo, PO Box 1066 Blindern, 0316 Oslo, Norway.
Tengs
Torstein
T
Vatne
Andreas
A
Bowers
Holly A
HA
Oldach
David W
DW
Burkholder
JoAnn M
JM
Glasgow
Howard B
HB
Rublee
Parke A
PA
Klaveness
Dag
D
D000818:Animals; D001267:Atlantic Ocean; D016054:DNA, Protozoan / Q000032:analysis; D004275:DNA, Ribosomal / Q000032:analysis; D004141:Dinoflagellida / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D005060:Europe; D009664:Norway; D020045:Pfiesteria piscicida / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D010802:Phylogeny; D012337:RNA, Ribosomal, 18S / Q000032:analysis; D012623:Seawater / Q000469:parasitology*
D016054:DNA, Protozoan; D004275:DNA, Ribosomal; D012337:RNA, Ribosomal, 18S