Morphology, Phylogeny and Pigment Composition of Potentially Harmful Marine Microalgae Karenia spp. (Kareniaceae, Dinophyceae) cultured from the Philippines
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INTRODUCTION
Marine unarmored dinoflagellates in the family Kareniaceae are harmful microalgal group responsible for economic damages on coastal fisheries worldwide. Of the three major genera (Karenia, Karlodinium and Takayama) in the family, Karenia is the most widely reported genus owing to its high bloom frequency and extent of fisheries damages (Sakamoto et al. 2020; Yñiguez et al. 2020). For example, the red tide of Karenia mikimotoi in Fujian province China is considered as most economically devastating bloom ever recorded which incurred >290M USD loss due to the mass mortalities of marine products particularly the cultured abalones (Sakamoto et al. 2020). In the Philippines, blooms of Karenia mikimotoi has been reported in Bolinao Pangasinan although no associated fish mortalities was documented (Azanza and Benico, 2015). Nonetheless, occurrence of Karenia mikimotoi and other related species in other coastal areas of the countries remains to be less reported and needs to be taxonomically verified since Karenia exhibit high morphological plasticity and their cells could easily be deformed when fixed during routine phytoplankton monitoring.
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