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RECORD NUMBER: 33 OF 244Main Title | Brown Tide Bioassay: Growth of 'Aureococcus Anophagefferens' Hargraves Et Sieburth in Various Known Toxicants. | |||||||||||
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Author | Steele, R. L. ; Wright, L. C. ; Tracey, G. A. ; Thursby., G. B. ; | |||||||||||
CORP Author | Environmental Research Lab., Narragansett, RI. ;Science Applications International Corp., Narragansett, RI. | |||||||||||
Publisher | 1990 | |||||||||||
Year Published | 1990 | |||||||||||
Report Number | EPA/600/D-90/067 ;ERLN-976; | |||||||||||
Stock Number | PB90-246430 | |||||||||||
Additional Subjects | Algae ; Ecology ; Phytoplankton ; Plankton blooms ; Iron ; Copper ; Bioassay ; Growth(Biology) ; Mussels ; Silver ; Marine biology ; Reprints ; Aureococcus anophagefferens ; Water pollution effects(animals) ; Algal blooms ; Toxic substances ; Sea grasses ; Zostera marina | |||||||||||
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Collation | 13p | |||||||||||
Abstract | This alga, occurring in Narragansett Bay, was responsible for wide-spread mortalities of populations of mussels and other shellfish. It also was responsible for die-off of strands of the seagrass Zostera marina on Long Island in Great South Bay and Peconic Bay. It is a small, 2.0 to 3.0 (occasionally 5.0 to 8.0) nonflagellated, pale gold colored, spherical cell. It is difficult to distinguish this alga from other picoplankters in a mixed collection under a light microscope, but in electron micrographs it is characterized by an abundant and loose extra-cellular polysaccharide-like material. |