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Toxic or Not? Modeling Pseudo-nitzschia Consumption and Domoic Acid Cycling in Washington's Intertidal Bivalves
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Toxic or Not? Modeling Pseudo-nitzschia Consumption and Domoic Acid Cycling in Washington's Intertidal Bivalves
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| Creator |
Jennings, Eva Dusek
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bivalve; domoic acid; Pseudo-nitzschia; Puget Sound; Washington
Fisheries and aquatic sciences Fisheries |
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| Description |
The cosmopolitan diatom genus Pseudo-nitzschia includes a number of species that are capable of producing the neurotoxin domoic acid (DA). When blooms of toxin-producing Pseudo-nitzschia are advected over intertidal shellfish beds, suspension-feeding clams, including mussels and oysters, feed on the diatom and bio-accumulate DA in their soft tissues. This results in a potential threat for humans, marine mammals, and sea birds that consume DA-tainted clams. On the outer coast of Washington...
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2012 |
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Simenstad, Charles A
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2013-02-25T17:59:17Z
2013-02-25 2012 |
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Thesis
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application/pdf
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Jennings_washington_0250E_10749.pdf
http://hdl.handle.net/1773/21968 |
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en_US
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