Application of real-time PCR assay for detection and quantification of Alexandrium tamarense and Alexandrium catenella cysts from marine sediments |
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Authors: | Ryoma Kamikawa Satoshi Nagai Shoko Hosoi-Tanabe Shigeru Itakura Mineo Yamaguchi Yoshitaka Uchida Toshinori Baba Yoshihiko Sako |
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Institution: | 1. School of Marine Sciences, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China;2. Third Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Xiamen 361005, China;3. CAS Key Laboratory of Marine Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China |
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Abstract: | The dinoflagellates Alexandrium tamarense (Lebor) Balech and Alexandrium catenella (Whedon and Kofoid) Balech (Dinophyceae) are believed to be the main species responsible for paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) all over the world. It is necessary to identify A. tamarense and A. catenella cysts and to monitor their distribution in sediment in order to minimize the damages caused by PSP to the economy and food quality because cysts are the seed population for blooms caused by motile vegetative cells. In this study, we developed an efficient DNA extraction method from the natural cysts present in marine sediments after they were size fractionated with a plankton net (mesh size of 20–150 μm). The 10–3000 cysts were added to the sediments collected from the Ariake Sea, and for which the primuline-staining method did not reveal any cysts. DNA was then extracted from each sample, and linear standard curves for A. tamarense and A. catenella cysts were obtained from the correlation between the Ct values by real-time PCR and the log of the initial densities of cysts. We monitored the A. tamarense and A. catenella cyst densities in the environmental samples. This assay was demonstrated to be a powerful tool for the identification, detection, and quantification of the cysts of the toxic dinoflagellates. |
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Keywords: | A tamarense A catenella Cyst Dinoflagellate Paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) Real-time PCR |
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