UMCES Scientists Identify Toxin Found in Chesapeake Bay Phytoplankton
August 10, 2024
August 10, 2024
CAMBRIDGE, Maryland, Aug. 10 (TNSres) -- The University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science issued the following news release:
BALTIMORE, MD -- From a 60-year-old Karlodinium Veneficum (K. veneficum) culture kept at the U.K.'s Plymouth Laboratory, a research team led by the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) discovered the cause of the Chesapeake Bay's fish-kill, which was originally blamed on another phytoplankton, Pfiesteria piscicida. UMCES r . . .
BALTIMORE, MD -- From a 60-year-old Karlodinium Veneficum (K. veneficum) culture kept at the U.K.'s Plymouth Laboratory, a research team led by the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) discovered the cause of the Chesapeake Bay's fish-kill, which was originally blamed on another phytoplankton, Pfiesteria piscicida. UMCES r . . .