Dickey, Mercer and their colleagues used phytoplankton, which are microscopic, single-celled plant-like organisms, and their external microbiomes as a tractable model system. By manipulating host ...

Figure 5 Concentrations (left) and Proportions (right) of phytoplankton community during the sample period in the WPO. Haptophytes and Prochlorophytes were the primary contributors to the total ...

This can be as a result of feeding on biotoxin producing phytoplankton. There are currently three groups of regulated biotoxins for shellfish. These can cause: paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) ...

In this study, we collected the main organic carbon sources, namely, seagrass, epiphytes, macroalgae, particulate organic matter (POM; mainly including phytoplankton ... The frozen muscle sample was ...