Predation by the toxic dinoflagellate Dinophysis fortii on the ciliate Myrionecta rubra and observation of sequestration of ciliate chloroplasts

Journal of Phycology

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 909-922

  Nagai, Satoshi ^a   Nitshitani, Goh ^a   Tomaru, Yuji ^a   Sakiyama, Sanae ^a   Kamiyama, Takashi ^b  

^a FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

^b FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cryptophyte; Cultivation; Diarrhetic shellfish poisoning; Dinoflagellate; Dinophysis fortii; Growth rate; Kleptoplastids; Myrionecta rubra; Phylogeny; Teleaulax amphioxeia

Indexed keywords

CILIOPHORA; CRYPTOPHYTA; DINOPHYCEAE; DINOPHYSIS FORTII; MYRIONECTA RUBRA; TELEAULAX AMPHIOXEIA;

EID: 48749095132     PISSN: 00223646     EISSN: 15298817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1529-8817.2008.00544.x     Document Type: Article

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