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Induction of toxin production in dinoflagellates: the grazer makes a difference
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- Bergkvist, Johanna, 1980 (author)
- Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för marin ekologi, Tjärnö marinbiologiska laboratorium,Department of Marine Ecology, Tjärnö Marine Biological Laboratory
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- Selander, Erik, 1973 (author)
- Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för marin ekologi, Tjärnö marinbiologiska laboratorium,Department of Marine Ecology, Tjärnö Marine Biological Laboratory
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- Pavia, Henrik, 1964 (author)
- Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för marin ekologi, Tjärnö marinbiologiska laboratorium,Department of Marine Ecology, Tjärnö Marine Biological Laboratory
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- 2008-02-19
- 2008
- English.
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In: Oecologia. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0029-8549 .- 1432-1939. ; 156:1, s. 147-154
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Abstract
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- The dinoflagellate Alexandrium minutum has previously been shown to produce paralytic shellfish toxins (PST) in response to waterborne cues from the copepod Acartia tonsa. In order to investigate if grazer-induced toxin production is a general or grazer-specific response of A. minutum to calanoid copepods, we exposed two strains of A. minutum to waterborne cues from three other species of calanoid copepods, Acartia clausi, Centropages typicus and Pseudocalanus sp. Both A. minutum strains responded to waterborne cues from Centropages and Acartia with significantly increased cell-specific toxicity. Waterborne cues from Centropages caused the strongest response in the A. minutum cells, with 5 to > 20 times higher toxin concentrations compared to controls. In contrast, neither of the A. minutum strains responded with significantly increased toxicity to waterborne cues from Pseudocalanus. The absolute increase in PST content was proportional to the intrinsic toxicity of the different A. minutum strains that were used. The results show that grazer-induced PST production is a grazer-specific response in A. minutum, and its potential ecological importance will thus depend on the composition of the zooplankton community, as well as the intrinsic toxin-producing properties of the A. minutum population.
Subject headings
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Biologi (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Biological Sciences (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- acartia tonsa
- alexandrium minutum
- centropages typicus
- inducible defense
- paralytic shellfish toxin
- pseudocalanus sp
- phaeocystis-globosa prymnesiophyceae
- alexandrium-minutum
- colony formation
- zooplankton
- prey
- resistance
- defenses
- copepods
- cues
- phytoplankton
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- ref (subject category)
- art (subject category)
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