Seasonal blooms of the dinoflagellate algae Noctiluca scintillans: Regional and global scale aspects

Piontkovski, Sergey; Serikova, Irina M.; Evstigneev, V. P.; Prusova, I Yu; Zagorodnaya, Yuliya A.; Al-Hashmi, Khalid; Al-Abri, Nader

doi:10.1016/j.rsma.2021.101771

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“…The temporal distribution of N. scintillans blooms showed a clear seasonal pattern, a total of 86.8% of events were recorded in spring and summer. This trend was also common in temperate and subtropical waters, such as Adriatic Sea (Fonda‐Umani et al, 2004), Gulf of Trieste (Mikaelyan et al, 2014), Black Sea (Mikaelyan et al, 2014; Üstün et al, 2018), Sea of Marmara (Turkoglu, 2013), and Japanese shelf (Piontkovski et al, 2021). The abiotic/biotic variables including water temperature, structure of water column, and food availability may be responsible for the seasonal variations of N. scintillans blooms (Ara et al, 2013).…”

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“…Gulf of Trieste (Mikaelyan et al, 2014), Black Sea (Mikaelyan et al, 2014;Üstün et al, 2018), Sea of Marmara (Turkoglu, 2013), and Japanese shelf (Piontkovski et al, 2021). The abiotic/biotic variables including water temperature, structure of water column, and food availability may be responsible for the seasonal variations of N. scintillans blooms (Ara et al, 2013).…”

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Noctiluca scintillans is an eurythermal and euryhaline dinoflagellate with large cell size (300-800 μm) (Elbrächter & Qi, 1998;Harrison et al, 2011;Piontkovski et al, 2021), which is well known to produce beautiful bioluminescence under perturbation. People call this bioluminescence phenomenon "blue tears", and therefore attracted countless tourists to watch this magical scene.

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Long‐term changes in Noctiluca scintillans blooms along the Chinese coast from 1933 to 2020

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Lin

Peng

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Global Change Biology

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Noctiluca scintillans is an eurythermal and euryhaline dinoflagellate with large cell size (300-800 μm) (Elbrächter & Qi, 1998;Harrison et al., 2011;Piontkovski et al., 2021), which is well known to produce beautiful bioluminescence under perturbation. People call this bioluminescence phenomenon "blue tears", and therefore attracted countless tourists to watch this magical scene. However, N. scintillans is also one of the most common harmful species worldwide and has caused harmful algal blooms (HABs) in many coastal waters includ-

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Long‐term changes in Noctiluca scintillans blooms along the Chinese coast from 1933 to 2020

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Lin

Peng

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Global Change Biology

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“…This species is non-toxic, but during the massive occurrence of blooms they can produce phytotoxins, the reason for the mortality of sh and marine invertebrates is thought to be due (Escalera et al, 2007;Kopuz et al, 2014). The water coloration of the blooms can be red or green, red Noctiluca is heterotrophic grazing on microzooplankton while green Noctiluca contains chlorophyll from green symbionts and is mixotrophic (Murugesan et al, 2017;Piontkovski et al, 2021).…”

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Harmful algal bloom by the dinoflagellate Noctiluca scintillans (Macartney) Kofoid & Swezy severely impacts coral reef fishes in the Gulf of Mannar, Southeast coast of India

Gunasekaran

Yosuva

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Marine fisheries and biodiversity in the Gulf of Mannar, Tamil Nadu, were severely impacted by the blooms of dinoflagellate Noctiluca scintillans, on 10th October 2021. The bloom affected the marine biodiversity in a 15 km2 area between Keelarai to Mudal in the Gulf of Mannar, Tamil Nadu, India. Post bloom observations showed mass mortality of a variety of finfish, ornamental fish, bivalves, shellfish, sea anemones, sea slugs, sea cucumbers, sea horses, polychaete worms, and seaweed that washed ashore. Two damselfish species Dascyllus reticulatus and D. trimaculatus were deleteriously affected. The intense N. scintillans bloom killed 0.83 tons of damselfish, equivalent to approximately 9 million fish, and 1.67 tons of commercially important fish valued at US$ 11.5 M.

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“…The dinoflagellate Noctiluca scintillans is a harmful algal species with a global distribution that has caused severe HABs in many coastal waters around the world, posing a significant threat to fishery resources and marine ecosystems ( Qi et al, 2019 ; Piontkovski et al, 2021 ). According to the differences in nutritional requirements, there are two forms of N. scintillans : Red and green ( Harrison et al, 2011 ).…”

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Isolation and characterization of a high-efficiency algicidal bacterium Pseudoalteromonas sp. LD-B6 against the harmful dinoflagellate Noctiluca scintillans

Yin¹,

Xu²,

Chen³

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Front. Microbiol.

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The dinoflagellate Noctiluca scintillans is a harmful algal species that is globally distributed and poses a certain threat to marine ecosystems. Recent research has shown that the application of algicidal bacteria is a promising method to prevent and control such harmful algal blooms (HABs), given its advantages of safety and efficiency. In this study, a strain of algicidal bacterium LD-B6 with high efficiency against N. scintillans was isolated from the coastal waters of Lianyungang, China. 16S rDNA sequence analysis showed that the strain LD-B6 belongs to the genus Pseudoalteromonas. Furthermore, the algicidal effect of LD-B6 on N. scintillans was investigated. The results showed that strain LD-B6 exerted strong algicidal activity against N. scintillans. After 12 h of bacterial culture addition to algal cultures at a 2% final volume rate, the algicidal activity reached 90.5%, and the algicidal activity of LD-B6 was influenced by the density of N. scintillans. In addition, the algicidal bacterium LD-B6 was found to indirectly lyse algal cells by secreting extracellular compounds. These algicidal compounds were stable, indicating that they are not proteins. Importantly, strain LD-B6 was broadly general, showing varying degrees of lysing effects against five of the six algal species tested. On the basis of the described studies above, the algicidal powder was also initially developed. In summary, the isolated bacterial strain LD-B6 shows the potent algicidal capability to serve as a candidate algicidal bacterium against N. scintillans blooms.

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Seasonal blooms of the dinoflagellate algae Noctiluca scintillans: Regional and global scale aspects

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Long‐term changes in Noctiluca scintillans blooms along the Chinese coast from 1933 to 2020

Long‐term changes in Noctiluca scintillans blooms along the Chinese coast from 1933 to 2020

Harmful algal bloom by the dinoflagellate Noctiluca scintillans (Macartney) Kofoid & Swezy severely impacts coral reef fishes in the Gulf of Mannar, Southeast coast of India

Isolation and characterization of a high-efficiency algicidal bacterium Pseudoalteromonas sp. LD-B6 against the harmful dinoflagellate Noctiluca scintillans

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Seasonal blooms of the dinoflagellate algae Noctiluca scintillans: Regional and global scale aspects

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Long‐term changes in Noctiluca scintillans blooms along the Chinese coast from 1933 to 2020

Long‐term changes in Noctiluca scintillans blooms along the Chinese coast from 1933 to 2020

Harmful algal bloom by the dinoflagellate Noctiluca scintillans (Macartney) Kofoid &amp; Swezy severely impacts coral reef fishes in the Gulf of Mannar, Southeast coast of India

Isolation and characterization of a high-efficiency algicidal bacterium Pseudoalteromonas sp. LD-B6 against the harmful dinoflagellate Noctiluca scintillans

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Harmful algal bloom by the dinoflagellate Noctiluca scintillans (Macartney) Kofoid & Swezy severely impacts coral reef fishes in the Gulf of Mannar, Southeast coast of India