Dinoflagellate Biology : : Using Molecular Approaches to Unlock Their Ecology and Evolution / / edited by Shauna Murray.

• TeilnehmendeR: Murray, Shauna,
• Place / Publishing House: [Place of publication not identified] : : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute,, 2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (150 pages)

Dinoflagellates are an important group of aquatic microbial eukaryotes, showing great diversity in life histories, ecological niches, morphology, and pigment composition. They include species with photosynthetic, heterotrophic, symbiotic, mixotrophic, and parasitic lifestyles, and encompass coral symbionts, harmful algal bloom forming species, and important fish parasites. They are present in fossil records that date back several hundred million years. Dinoflagellates include the majority of species that produce marine biotoxins, impacting aquaculture. In recent years, molecular approaches have been applied to understand dinoflagellate biology, including techniques for studying dinoflagellate ecology, physiology, basic genetics, and evolution. This Special Issue, edited by Professor Shauna Murray, is dedicated to the application and development of molecular approaches for enhancing our understanding of dinoflagellate biology.

Table of Contents

About the Editor vii -- Yibi Chen, Sarah Shah, Katherine E. Dougan, Madeleine J. H. van Oppen, Debashish Bhattacharya and Cheong Xin Chan Improved Cladocopium goreaui Genome Assembly Reveals Features of a Facultative Coral Symbiont and the Complex Evolutionary History of Dinoflagellate Genes Reprinted from: Microorganisms 2022, 10, 1662, doi:10.3390/microorganisms10081662 . 1 -- Jinik Hwang, Hee Woong Kang, Seung Joo Moon, Jun-Ho Hyung, Eun Sun Lee and Jaeyeon Park Metagenomic Analysis of the Species Composition and Seasonal Distribution of Marine Dinoflagellate Communities in Four Korean Coastal Regions Reprinted from: Microorganisms 2022, 10, 1459, doi:10.3390/microorganisms10071459 . 21 -- Miranda Judd and Allen R. Place A Strategy for Gene Knockdown in Dinoflagellates Reprinted from: Microorganisms 2022, 10, 1131, doi:10.3390/microorganisms10061131 . 35 -- Ernest Williams, Tsvetan Bachvaroff and Allen Place Dinoflagellate Phosphopantetheinyl Transferase (PPTase) and Thiolation Domain Interactions Characterized Using a Modified Indigoidine Synthesizing Reporter Reprinted from: Microorganisms 2022, 10, 687, doi:10.3390/microorganisms10040687 . 49 -- Ikuko Yuyama, Naoto Ugawa and Tetsuo Hashimoto Transcriptome Analysis of Durusdinium Associated with the Transition from Free-Living to Symbiotic Reprinted from: Microorganisms 2021, 9, 1560, doi:10.3390/microorganisms9081560 65 -- Kathleen Cusick and Gabriel Duran sxtA4+ and sxtA4- Genotypes Occur Together within Natural Pyrodinium bahamense Sub-Populations from the Western Atlantic Reprinted from: Microorganisms 2021, 9, 1128, doi:10.3390/microorganisms9061128 73 -- Tania Islas-Flores, Edgardo Gal´an-V´asquez and Marco A. Villanueva Screening a Spliced Leader-Based Symbiodinium microadriaticum cDNA Library Using the Yeast-Two Hybrid System Reveals a Hemerythrin-Like Protein as a Putative SmicRACK1 Ligand Reprinted from: Microorganisms 2021, 9, 791, doi:10.3390/microorganisms9040791 . 89 -- Christina Ripken, Konstantin Khalturin and Eiichi Shoguchi Response of Coral Reef Dinoflagellates to Nanoplastics under Experimental Conditions Suggests Downregulation of Cellular Metabolism Reprinted from: Microorganisms 2020, 8, 1759, doi:10.3390/microorganisms8111759 103 -- Kate McLennan, Rendy Ruvindy, Martin Ostrowski and Shauna Murray Assessing the Use of Molecular Barcoding and qPCR for Investigating the Ecology of Prorocentrum minimum (Dinophyceae), a Harmful Algal Species Reprinted from: Microorganisms 2021, 9, 510, doi:10.3390/microorganisms9030510 . 117 -- Kate McLennan, Rendy Ruvindy, Martin Ostrowski and Shauna Murray Correction: McLennan et al. Assessing the Use of Molecular Barcoding and qPCR for Investigating the Ecology of Prorocentrum minimum (Dinophyceae), a Harmful Algal Species. Microorganisms 2021, 9, 510 Reprinted from: Microorganisms 2022, 10, 1906, doi:10.3390/microorganisms10101906 . 139.