Morphological Identification of Alexandrium tamarense and A. catenella (Dinophyceae) from Korean Coastal Waters

  • Kim, Keunyong (Interdisciplinary Program of Ocean Industrial Engineering, Pukyong National University) ;
  • Kim, Chang-Hoon (Department of Aquaculture, Pukyong National University)
  • Published : 2001.05.01

Abstract

Taxonomic studies of HAB species have been hindered by paucity of informative morphology, phenotypic variation under different environmental ifluences, lack of knowledge on their sexual reproduction. In Korea, two PSP incidents resulting in human deaths after eating contaminated mussels broke out in 1985 (Chang et al.1987 and 1996 (Lee et al, 1997). (omitted)

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