The toxigenic marine dinoflagellate Alexandrium tamarense as the probable cause of mortality of caged salmon in Nova Scotia

Harmful Algae

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 313-325

  Cembella, A D ^a   Quilliam, M A ^a   Lewis, N I ^a   Bauder, A G ^a   Dell'Aversano, C ^a,d   Thomas, K ^a   Jellett, J ^b   Cusack, R R ^c  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b RR1   (Canada)

^c Veterinary Pathology ^*  (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alexandrium; Fish kill; Paralytic shellfish toxins; PSP

Indexed keywords

ALGAL BLOOM; DINOFLAGELLATE; MORTALITY; PARALYTIC SHELLFISH POISONING; SALMONID CULTURE; TOXICITY;

CANADA;

ALEXANDRIUM; ALEXANDRIUM TAMARENSE; DINOPHYCEAE;

EID: 0037843045     PISSN: 15689883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1568-9883(02)00048-3     Document Type: Article

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