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AME 31:307-312 (2003)
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Abstract
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Reduction in the toxicity of the dinoflagellate Gymnodinium catenatum when fed on by the heterotrophic dinoflagellate Polykrikos kofoidii
Hae Jin Jeong1,*, Kwan Ha Park2, Jae Seong Kim1, Heonjoong Kang3, Chang Hoon Kim4, Hyuk-Jae Choi3, Young Soo Kim4, Jae Yeon Park3, Myung Gil Park5,6
1Department of Oceanography,
2Faculty of Marine Life Sciences, College of Ocean Science and Technology,
5Red Tide Research Center, Kunsan National University, Kunsan 573-701, South Korea
3School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, College of Natural Sciences, Seoul National University, NS-80, Seoul 151-747, South Korea
4Institute of Environmental Research, Pukyong National University, Pusan, South Korea
6Present address: Division of Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences, College of Natural Sciences, Chonnam National University, Kwangju 500-757, South Korea
*Email: hjjeong@kunsan.ac.kr
ABSTRACT: To investigate the ability of the heterotrophic dinoflagellate Polykrikos kofoidii to reduce the toxicity produced by the dinoflagellate Gymnodinium catenatum (toxicity = 2.0 to 3.9 Mouse Units [MU]/105 G.
catenatum cells), we used the mouse bioassay to measure the toxicity retained in a population of P. kofoidii, originally fed G. catenatum for 2 d (ingestion rate = 5.6 cells grazer-1 d-1) and then
starved. As a control, we measured the toxicity retained in a population of P. kofoidii originally fed a non-toxic strain of Scrippsiella trochoidea. The toxicity retained in a population of P. kofoidii at Hour 0
(P. kofoidii starved for 0 to 48 h after being fed) was 17.3 MU/105 P. kofoidii cells. With increasing elapsed time after starvation the toxicity rapidly decreased to 3.6 MU/105 P. kofoidii
cells at Hour 24, slowly decreased between Hours 36 and 81, and was not detectable at Hour 96. The decay constant in the exponential equation of the regression line for the toxicity in 105 P. kofoidii cells between Hours 0 and 96
was 0.059. No toxicity was detected in P. kofoidii fed S. trochoidea. This evidence suggests that the starvation of P. kofoidii fed G. catenatum may provide dissipation of the toxicity caused by this
prey in marine food webs.
KEY WORDS: Harmful algal bloom · Ingestion · Protist · Red tide · Toxin · Zooplankton
Full text in pdf format
Published in AME Vol.
31, No. 3
(2003) on April 3
Print ISSN: 0948-3055; Online ISSN: 1616-1564.
Copyright © Inter-Research, Oldendorf/Luhe, 2003
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