This study evaluates the growth and chemical composition of the following marine microalgae: Dunaliella tertiolecta, Isochrysis galbana, and Tetraselmis gracilis and the chemical composition of Chlorella pyrenoidosa. Microalgae can produce a number of compounds of high commercial value for the industry, mainly for the food industry. The growth kinetics, cell volume, pigments, carbohydrates, pro...

Numbering in excess of 10 million per milliliter of water, it is now undisputed that aquatic viruses are one of the major factors shaping the ecology and evolution of Earth's microbial world. Nonetheless, environmental viral diversity and roles remain poorly understood. Here we report the first thorough characterization of a virus (designated TsV) that infects the coastal marine microalga Tetra...

The effectiveness of various physical and chemical methods for the removal of contaminants from the microalgae, Tetraselmis suecica, culture was investigated. The information obtained was used as the basis for the development of improved protocol for the preparation of axenic culture to be adapted to heterotrophic cultivation. Repeated centrifugation and rinsing effectively removed the free bac...

The locally isolated harpacticoid copepods Tigriopus sp. and Tisbe holothuriae were subjected to salinity tolerance experimentation at salinities under above of 40 ppt, presented high halotolerances in LC50 (24 h) 1 ± 4.43 ppt 132 5.35 respectively, 15 2.41 93 3.23 respectively. Tetraselmis suecica, among other microalgal feeds (Asteromonas gracilis, Rhodomonas salina, Dunaliella salina Isochry...

Cell disruption is an essential step in the release of cellular contents but mechanical cell disruption processes are highly energy intensive. This energy requirement may become a critical issue for the sustainability of low valued commodities such as microalgal biofuels derived from extracted lipids. By the use of an atomic force microscope (AFM), this study evaluated the force and energy requ...

Simultaneous use of both heterotrophic and autotrophic metabolism ("mixotrophy") is common among protists. Strombidium rassoulzadegani is a planktonic mixotrophic marine ciliate that saves chloroplasts from its algal food and obtains a nutritional subsidy via photosynthesis. Cultures from the northeast, northwest, and southwest Atlantic Ocean show similar numerical response parameters (maximum ...

A high-affinity phosphate transporter gene, TcPHO, was isolated from a growth-dependent subtracted cDNA library of the marine unicellular alga Tetraselmis chui. The full-length cDNA of TcPHO obtained by 5' and 3' rapid amplification of cDNA ends was 1,993 bp long and encoded an open reading frame consisting of 610 amino acids. The deduced amino acid sequence of TcPHO exhibited 51.6 and 49.8% si...

The involvement of algal chemical cues in the pre-ingestive selection of food particles in Crassostrea gigas was studied using a new approach. Live cells of two microalgal species, Nitzschia closterium and Tetraselmis suesica, were separately entrapped in small alginate microcapsules using an emulsification/internal gelation method. Microcapsule size was adjusted to be within the range of parti...

Tetraselmis suecica is a green microalga that thrives under wide range of conditions, used in the commercial culture fish, mollusk, and crustacean larvae for supplementing demand fertilizers. Its pigments have applications human health care as drug products, vitamins, cosmetics. Growth pigment concentration T. were evaluated experimental cultures with different nutrient concentrations light int...

Abstract This study examines how salinity reduction triggers the response of three marine microalgae at molecular and unicellular levels in terms chemical, mechanical, behavioral changes. At lowest salinity, all microalgal species exhibited an increase membrane sterols behaved stiffer. The glycocalyx-coated Dunaliella tertiolecta was surrounded by a thick actin layer showed highest physiologica...