Expanding known dinoflagellate distributions: investigations of slurry cultures from Caspian Sea sediment

To investigate the disparity between plankton and cyst records, sediment slurry cultures were used to isolate the motile stage of dinoflagellates from Caspian Sea sediment. This has resulted in new records for this area of , and sp. and for the cyst record, . Two species were isolated, one was ident...

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Published inBotanica marina Vol. 61; no. 1; pp. 21 - 31
Main Authors Lewis, Jane, Taylor, Joe D., Neale, Klaire, Leroy, Suzanne A.G.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Berlin De Gruyter 01.01.2018
Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Subjects
Biodiversity and Ecology
Caspian Sea
Cultures
Cysts
Dinoflagellates
Environmental Sciences
Gonyaulax
Microorganisms
New records
Plankton
Sediment
Sediments
Slurries
Caspian Sea
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Summary:To investigate the disparity between plankton and cyst records, sediment slurry cultures were used to isolate the motile stage of dinoflagellates from Caspian Sea sediment. This has resulted in new records for this area of , and sp. and for the cyst record, . Two species were isolated, one was identified as and the other an unknown species. Cultures of were also isolated. The approach of using slurries was useful to provide cultures from sediments that were relatively poor in dinoflagellate cysts with contents.
ISSN:0006-8055
1437-4323
DOI:10.1515/bot-2017-0041