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Allelopathic interactions between Prorocentrum micans and Skeletonema costatum or Karenia mikimotoi in laboratory cultures

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Algal allelopathy is an ecological/physiological phenomenon that has focused attention on the interactions among algae and the production of algal toxins. We investigated the allelopathic interactions between the dinoflagellate genus Prorocentrum micans and diatom genus Skeletonema costatum and between P. micans and dinoflagellate genus Karenia mikimotoi using bi-algal cultures. Because the effects were species-specific and size-dependent, we evaluated the effect of different initial densities. At low densities of P. micans and high densities of S. costatum inoculated into the same medium, the growth of P. micans was weakly restrained, whereas the growth of S. costatum was significantly suppressed. S. costatum and K. mikimotoi were strongly inhibited by P. micans, in both the bi-algal cultures and enriched filtrates. Direct cell-to-cell contact was not necessary to gain a competitive advantage, thus, our results suggest that P. micans inhibited the growth of S. costatum and K. mikimotoi by the release of allelochemical(s). Last, a mathematical model was used to simulate growth and interactions between P. micans and S. costatum and between P. micans and K. mikimotoi in bi-algal cultures.

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  1. Key Laboratory of Marine Ecology and Environmental Science, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, 266071, China

    Xiaoqing Ji  (冀晓青), Xiaotian Han  (韩笑天), Zhiming Yu  (俞志明) & Jingzhong Zou  (邹景忠)

  2. Marine Ecology Research Center, the First Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration, Qingdao, 266061, China

    Li Zheng  (郑立) & Baijuan Yang  (杨佰娟)

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Supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) (Nos. 2011CB200901, 2010CB428706), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.40806053)

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Ji, X., Han, X., Zheng, L. et al. Allelopathic interactions between Prorocentrum micans and Skeletonema costatum or Karenia mikimotoi in laboratory cultures. Chin. J. Ocean. Limnol. 29, 840–848 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00343-011-0512-x

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