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TOXICITY OF SUBTROPICAL MARINE ALGAE USING FISH MORTALITY AND RED BLOOD CELL HEMOLYSIS FOR BIOASSAYS 1
Author(s) -
Targett Nancy M.,
Mitsui Akira
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
journal of phycology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.85
H-Index - 127
eISSN - 1529-8817
pISSN - 0022-3646
DOI - 10.1111/j.1529-8817.1979.tb02982.x
Subject(s) - biology , chlorophyta , botany , algae , hemolysis , bioassay , ecology , immunology
Two bioassays (fish mortality and fish erythrocyte hemolysis) were used to survey for the presence of toxic principles in aqueous extracts of 19 species of marine macro‐algae found in south Florida coastal waters. Extracts from six species (Chlorophyta —Anadyomene stellata (Wulfen) C. Ag., Caulerpa prolifera (Forsskål) Lamour., Penicillus capitatus Lamarck: Rhodophyta —Centroceras clavulatum (C. Ag.) Montague, Laurencia papillosa (Forsskål) Grev., L. poitel (Lamour.) Howe) showed lethal toxicity to the spotfin mojarra, Euconistomus argenteus Baird & Girard. Extracts from three species (Chlorophyta —A. stellata: Phaeophyta —Dictyota dichotoma (Hudson) Lamour.: Rhodophyta —Wrangelia penicillata C. Ag.) lysed erythrocytes of sea bream, Archosargus rhomboidalis (L.).