Expanding known dinoflagellate distributions : investigations of slurry cultures from Caspian Sea sediment

Lewis, J; Taylor, JD; Neale, K; Leroy, SAG

Abstract

To investigate the disparity between plankton and cyst records, sediment slurry cultures were used to isolate the motile stage of dinoflagellates from Caspian Sea sediment. This has resulted in new records for this area of Kryptoperidinium foliaceum, Gymnodinium aureolum and Woloszynskia sp. and for the cyst record, Scrippsiella acuminata. Two Gonyaulax species were isolated, one was identified as Gonyaulax baltica and the other an unknown species. Cultures of Lingulodinium polyedra were also isolated. The approach of using slurries was useful to provide cultures from sediments that were relatively poor in dinoflagellate cysts with contents.

Citation

Lewis, J., Taylor, J., Neale, K., & Leroy, S. (2017). Expanding known dinoflagellate distributions : investigations of slurry cultures from Caspian Sea sediment. Botanica Marina, 61(1), 21-31. https://doi.org/10.1515/bot-2017-0041

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Nov 14, 2017
• Online Publication Date: Dec 19, 2017
• Publication Date: Dec 19, 2017
• Deposit Date: Apr 5, 2018
• Publicly Available Date: Dec 19, 2018
• Journal: Botanica Marina
• Print ISSN: 0006-8055
• Electronic ISSN: 1437-4323
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Volume: 61
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 21-31
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/bot-2017-0041
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/bot-2017-0041
• Related Public URLs: https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/botm#