Ciguatera Poisoning (CP) is the most prevalent, phycotoxin related seafood poisoning
across the globe, affecting between 10,000 and 50,000 people annually. This illness results …

This review provides an in-depth survey of the recorded incidences in aquatic organisms of
mortality and disease events suspected or known to be caused by microalgal or ciliate …

In this paper, we focus on dinoflagellate ecology, toxin production, fossil record, and a
molecular phylogenetic analysis of hosts and plastids. Of ecological interest are the …

The South China Sea is poorly understood in terms of its marine biota, ecology and the
human impacts upon it. What is known is most often contained in reports and workshop and …

In early 1998, a toxic red tide devastated the fish farming industry in Hong Kong. In response
to the attention given to this event by the general public and the fisheries industry, the …

Ciguatera is a disease caused by sodium channel activator toxins and results from the
consumption of warm water fish contaminated by the ciguatoxin class of polyether toxins. 2 …

Litaker RW, Vandersea MW, Faust MA, Kibler SR, Chinain M., Holmes MJ, Holland WC and
Tester PA 2009. Taxonomy of Gambierdiscus including four new species, Gambierdiscus …

A new benthic toxic dinoflagellate is described from the Canary Islands, Spain.
Gambierdiscus excentricus sp. nov. was isolated from seaweeds growing in tidal ponds and …

Worldwide increases in the frequency and spatial extent of blooms of harmful marine
microalgae and heterotrophic dinoflagellates suggest that these species are becoming an …

The growth and toxin production in a clonal strain of Gambierdiscus polynesiensis, TB-92,
was examined in batch culture conditions. The mean growth rate at exponential phase was …