Toxic dinoflagellate blooms of Gymnodinium catenatum and their cysts in Taiwan Strait and their relationship to global populations

• Published in: Harmful algae Vol. 97; p. 101868
• Main Authors: Liu, Minlu, Gu, Haifeng, Krock, Bernd, Luo, Zhaohe, Zhang, Yubo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Netherlands Elsevier B.V 01.07.2020
• Subjects: Blooms; China; Chromatography, Liquid; Dinoflagellida; East China Sea; Ecotype; ecotypes; financial economics; germination; gonyautoxins; Growth; Gymnodinium; Harmful Algal Bloom; Hydroxybenzoate toxins; internal transcribed spacers; light microscopy; liquid chromatography; Paralytic shellfish toxins; poisoning; poisonous algae; quantitative polymerase chain reaction; ribosomal DNA; ribosomal RNA; scanning electron microscopy; sediments; Taiwan; Tandem Mass Spectrometry; temperature; toxicity; Yellow Sea; Taiwan; East China Sea; Yellow Sea; China; Ecotype; Blooms; Growth; Hydroxybenzoate toxins; Paralytic shellfish toxins

•Gymnodinium catenatum blooms occurred in the Taiwan Strait in 2017 and 2018.•Gymnodinium catenatum cyst density increased markedly after the bloom in 2017.•Gymnodinium catenatum population in the Taiwan Strait belongs to a warm water ecotype.•Gymnodinium catenatum in the Taiwan Strait has a unique...