Growth, Toxin Content and Production of Dinophysis Norvegica in Cultured Strains Isolated from Funka Bay (Japan)

• Published in: Toxins Vol. 15; no. 5; p. 318
• Main Authors: Nagai, Satoshi, Basti, Leila, Uchida, Hajime, Kuribayashi, Takanori, Natsuike, Masafumi, Sildever, Sirje, Nakayama, Natsuko, Lum, Wai Mun, Matsushima, Ryuji
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 01.05.2023; MDPI
• Subjects: Aquaculture; Bays; Ciliophora; Coastal waters; diarrhetic shellfish poisoning (DSP); Dinoflagellates; Dinoflagellida; Dinophysis norvegica; dinophysistoxin-1 (DTX1); Evaluation; Identification and classification; Japan; Lag phase; Marine Toxins; Mesodinium rubrum; Microorganisms; Okadaic Acid; pectenotoxin-2 (PTX2); Physiological aspects; Poisoning; Shellfish; Teleaulax amphioxeia; Toxins; Japan; Canada; United States > US; Norway; Baltic Sea; diarrhetic shellfish poisoning (DSP); Mesodinium rubrum; okadaic acid (OA); dinophysistoxin-1 (DTX1); Dinophysis norvegica; Teleaulax amphioxeia; pectenotoxin-2 (PTX2)

The successful cultivation of Dinophysis norvegica Claparède & Lachmann, 1859, isolated from Japanese coastal waters, is presented in this study, which also includes an examination of its toxin content and production for the first time. Maintaining the strains at a high abundance (>2000 cells...