Pfiesteria is a genus of heterotrophic dinoflagellates that has been associated with harmful algal blooms and fish kills. Pfiesteria complex organisms (PCOs) were claimed to be responsible for large fish kills in the 1980s and 1990s on the coast of North Carolina and in tributaries of the Chesapeake Bay. In reaction to the toxic outbreaks, six states along the US east coast have initiated a monitoring program to allow for rapid response in the case of new outbreaks and to better understand the factors involved in Pfiesteria toxicity and outbreaks.[1] New molecular detection methods have revealed that Pfiesteria has a worldwide distribution.[2]
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^Rublee PA, Remington DL, Schaefer EF, Marshall MM (2005). "Detection of the Dinozoans Pfiesteria piscicida and P. shumwayae: a review of detection methods and geographic distribution" (PDF). J. Eukaryot. Microbiol. 52 (2): 83–9. doi:10.1111/j.1550-7408.2005.05202007.x. PMID 15817112. S2CID 15838304.
Pfiesteria is a genus of heterotrophic dinoflagellates that has been associated with harmful algal blooms and fish kills. Pfiesteria complex organisms...
Pfiesteria piscicida is a dinoflagellate species of the genus Pfiesteria that some researchers claim was responsible for many harmful algal blooms in the...
Pseudopfiesteria shumwayae (formerly placed in the genus Pfiesteria; see 'Taxonomy' section below) is a species of heterotrophic dinoflagellates in the...
Foundation Pfiesteria Archived 2007-03-11 at the Wayback Machine, About the Neuse, Neuse River Foundation Pfiesteria, USDA Facts about Pfiesteria, NCDENR...
Pfiesteria shumwayae Pfiesteria piscicida The media has applied the term carnivorous or predatory algae mainly to Pfiesteria piscicida, Pfiesteria shumwayae...
other protozoa, and a few forms are parasitic (for example, Oodinium and Pfiesteria). Some dinoflagellates produce resting stages, called dinoflagellate cysts...
shallow marine waters. It is caused by the ambush predator dinoflagellate Pfiesteria piscicida. When large numbers of fish, like shoaling forage fish, are...
biologist JoAnn Burkholder of North Carolina State University, and how Pfiesteria piscicida could be the first plague; Richard Wassersug of Dalhousie University...
Vincent J. (2008) Pathogenicity of the Purportedly Toxic Dinoflagellates Pfiesteria Piscicida and Pseudopfiesteria Shumwayae and Related Species[permanent...
particularly harmful source of toxicity is Pfiesteria piscicida, which can affect both fish and humans. Pfiesteria caused a small regional panic in the late...
water temperature to 30°C helps to release the dinospore from the cyst. Pfiesteria Chatton, E. (1912). "Diagnose préliminaires de Péridiniens parasites nouveaux"...
Raleigh. She was responsible for identifying the cause, a dinoflagellate Pfiesteria piscicida and its toxins, of mass deaths of fish that posed a public health...
the latter being poorly studied. Alveolata Dinoflagellata: Oodinium, Pfiesteria Parasite with amoeboid life cycle stages. Opisthokonta Nucleariida: Micronuclearia...
poisoning Paralytic shellfish poisoning – Syndrome of shellfish poisoning Pfiesteria – Genus of single-celled organisms Pseudi-nitzschia – Genus of marine...
shallow marine waters. It is caused by the ambush predator dinoflagellate Pfiesteria piscicida. When large numbers of fish, like shoaling forage fish, are...
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