The study reaffirmed that some strains of the two known Pfiesteria species are toxic, including a strain used by other researchers who had asserted that Pfiesteria can't make toxin. Burkholder and ...

Pfiesteria stages and their putative neurotoxin ... which means the tanks invariably contain many different contaminant species including amoebae. "Thus, it is not possible to determine life ...

They maintain that this contamination means that it is not possible to determine life cycle stages of Pfiesteria piscicida without using molecular probes specific to particular species.

Ms. Shumway, who has reported the microbe’s toxic effects on shellfish, enjoys the dubious honor of a species bearing her surname, Pfiesteria shumwayae. In one of the new experiments ...

A laboratory sample of Pfiesteria shumwayae, one of two named Pfiesteria species, slays fish only by direct contact, says Robert Gawley of the University of Miami in Coral Gables. By centrifuging ...

Microorganisms on microplastics Date: June 5, 2019 Source: Forschungsverbund Berlin Summary: A recent study shows that that the potentially toxin-producing plankton species Pfiesteria piscicida ...

Scientists investigating the recent Pfiesteria outbreak don’t know whether ... the answer could lie in the introduction of foreign oyster species that are more resistant to disease.

Sandra Shumway, a marine science professor at Long Island University’s Southampton College, has the unusual honor of having one of the ocean’s deadliest microbes named after her. As one… ...

<TAB>Two teams of researchers say they cannot confirm the claims of a decade-old study that indicated that pfiesteria, a parasitic algae that plagues Eastern coastal waters, can make a toxin that ...

Pfiesteria, a single-cell organism that releases ... Afflicted fish of various species were found throughout the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries, including the James, York and Rappahannock ...

The study reaffirmed that some strains of the two known Pfiesteria species are toxic, including a strain used by other researchers who had asserted that Pfiesteria can’t make toxin.