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An experimental search for phytoplanktonic algae producing external metabolites which condition natural sea waters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

Douglas P. Wilson
Douglas P. Wilson
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The Laboratory, Marine Biological Association Citadel Hill, Plymouth
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In a search for phytoplanktonic algae which may condition water masses by excreted metabolites monocultures of 29 species of diatoms and flagellates, also of one sedentary alga, were tested with developing eggs and larvae of two species of sea-urchin and of a polychaete. Results indicated that about half of the algal species examined, using both unfiltered cultures and filtrates from them, probably do not produce metabolites affecting development of the three animal species employed in this work. Others were harmful or favourable to them in various ways. One flagellate species in particular, Olisthodiscus luteus N. Carter was of outstanding interest, with effects on larvae varying from toxic to favourable according to culture density and amount of dilution with normal sea water. Ancillary experiments eliminated the possibility that excessively high or low pH could be responsible for observed effects, while others showed that in a semi-toxic environment crowding of eggs and larvae can be beneficial but not in non-toxic media. In the main experimental search for possible effects of metabolites, eggs and larvae were never crowded.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 61 , Issue 3 , August 1981 , pp. 585 - 607
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1981

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