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http://dx.doi.org/10.5657/fas.2004.7.3.122

Sensitive, Accurate PCR Assays for Detecting Harmful Dinoflagellate Cochlodinium polykrikoides Using a Specific Oligonucleotide Primer Set  

Kim Chang-Hoon (Department of Aquaculture, Pukyong National University)
Park Gi-Hong (Department of Aquaculture, Pukyong National University)
Kim Keun-Yong (Department of Aquaculture, Pukyong National University)
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Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences / v.7, no.3, 2004 , pp. 122-129 More about this Journal
Abstract
Harmful Cochlodinium polykrikoides is a notorious harmful algal bloom (HAB) species that is causing mass mortality of farmed fish along the Korean coast with increasing frequency. We analyzed the sequence of the large subunit (LSD) rDNA D1-D3 region of C. polykrikoides and conducted phylogenetic analyses using Bayesian inference of phylogeny and the maximum likelihood method. The molecular phylogeny showed that C. polykrikoides had the genetic relationship to Amphidinium and Gymnodinium species supported only by the relatively high posterior probabilities of Bayesian inference. Based on the LSU rDNA sequence data of diverse dinoflagellate taxa, we designed the C. polykrikoides-specific PCR primer set, CPOLY01 and CPOLY02 and developed PCR detection assays for its sensitive, accurate HAB monitoring. CPOLY01 and CPOLY02 specifically amplified C. polykrikoides and did not cross-react with any dinoflagellates tested in this study or environmental water samples. The effective annealing temperature $(T_{p})$ of CPOLY01 and CPOLY02 was $67^{\circ}C$. At this temperature, the conventional and nested PCR assays were sensitive over a wide range of C. polykrikoides cell numbers with detection limits of 0.05 and 0.0001 cells/reaction, respectively.
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Cochlodinium polykrikoides; Harmful algal bloom (HAB); PCR detection assay; Species-specific PCR primer set;
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