Dinophysis Toxins: Distribution, Fate in Shellfish and Impacts

Beatriz Reguera; Juan Blanco

doi:10.3390/toxins11070413

Dinophysis Toxins: Distribution, Fate in Shellfish and Impacts

Toxins (Basel). 2019 Jul 16;11(7):413. doi: 10.3390/toxins11070413.

Authors

Beatriz Reguera¹, Juan Blanco²

Affiliations

¹ Instituto Español de Oceanografía (IEO), Centro Oceanográfico de Vigo, Subida a Radio Faro 50, 36390 Vigo, Spain. beatriz.reguera@ieo.es.
² Centro de Investigacións Mariñas, Xunta de Galicia, Pedras de Corón S/N, 36620 Vilanova de Arousa, Spain. juan.carlos.blanco.perez@xunta.gal.

Abstract

Several planktonic dinoflagellate species of the genus Dinophysis produce one or two groups of lipophilic toxins: (i) okadaic acid (OA) and its derivatives, the dinophysistoxins (DTXs), and (ii) pectenotoxins (PTXs) [...].

Publication types

Editorial
Introductory Journal Article

MeSH terms

Animals
Biological Monitoring
Dinoflagellida*
Food Contamination*
Humans
Marine Toxins*
Okadaic Acid*
Pyrans*
Shellfish*

Substances

Marine Toxins
Pyrans
Okadaic Acid