Note to users. If you're seeing this message, it means that your browser cannot find this page's style/presentation instructions -- or possibly that you are using a browser that does not support current Web standards. Find out more about why this message is appearing, and what you can do to make your experience of our site the best it can be.

Site Tools

  • AAAS
  • Subscribe
  • Feedback

Site Search

Search Advanced

Science 25 June 1965:
Vol. 148. no. 3678, pp. 1748 - 1749
DOI: 10.1126/science.148.3678.1748
Prev | Table of Contents | Next

Articles

Gymnodinium breve: Induction of Shellfish Poisoning in Chicks

Sammy M. Ray 1 and David V. Aldrich 2

1 Marine Laboratory, Texas A&M University, Galveston
2 Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, Biological Laboratory, Galveston, Texas

Oysters exposed to laboratory cultures of the fish-killing dinoflagellate, Gymnodinium breve, are toxic when fed to chicks. The ecological significance of this result is interpreted in relation to the scarcity of well-documented reports of shellfish poisoning in higher animals from those areas of the Gulf of Mexico in which G. breve "blooms" occur.


THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Gibberellic Acid: A Growth Factor in the Unicellular Alga Gymnodinium breve.
Z. Paster and B. C. Abbott (1970)
Science 169, 600-601
   Abstract »    PDF »


To Advertise     Find Products

Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)