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BROWN TIDE BIOASSAY: GROWTH OF AUREOCOCCUS ANOPHAGEFFERENS HARGRAVES ET SIEBURTH IN VARIOUS KNOWN TOXICANTS
Citation:
Steele, R., L. Wright, G. Tracey, AND G. Thursby. BROWN TIDE BIOASSAY: GROWTH OF AUREOCOCCUS ANOPHAGEFFERENS HARGRAVES ET SIEBURTH IN VARIOUS KNOWN TOXICANTS. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., EPA/600/D-90/067 (NTIS PB90246430).
Description:
This alga, occurring in Narragansett Bay, was responsible for wide-spread mortalities of populations of mussels and other shellfish (Tracey et al., 1988). t also was responsible for die-off of strands of the seagrass Zostera marina on Long Island in Creat South Bay and Peconic Bay (W.C. Dennison, pers comm). t is a small, 2.0 to 3.0 (occasionally 5.0 to 8.0) nonflagellated, pale gold colored, spherical cell. t is difficult to distinquish 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 (Sieburth et al., 1988).