Bio-Monitoring of Marine and Fresh Water Toxins in Europe and North America
A special issue of Toxins (ISSN 2072-6651). This special issue belongs to the section "Marine and Freshwater Toxins".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2018) | Viewed by 8265
Special Issue Editors
Interests: marine and freshwater detection; toxicology; pharmacology
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Interests: marine toxins; cyanotoxins; mycotoxins; detection methods of toxins; mechanism of action of toxins; toxin effects
Interests: harmful algal blooms and proliferations; metabolomics; metagenetics; molecular biology; natural products chemistry
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue on “Bio-Monitoring of Marine and Fresh Water Toxins in Europe and North America” intends to cover several topics that have the attention of specialists in the field: New and fast methods to detect cyanotoxins and phycotoxins, their chemical variability, the geographical expansion of some of them and the ecology behind this, the toxicological implications and the legal requirements for water and seafood quality. To date, it has been very difficult to identify and link climate change with the presence of a type of toxin in a defined geographical area, especially because human eutrophication and water pollution goes along with the chemical profiles. The expansion of cylindrospermopsin, or the recent appearance of tetrodotoxin as a seafood problem highlights the complexity of the topic. We expect this Special Issue will help clarify the complex science of bio-monitoring cyanotoxins and marine toxins.
Prof. Dr. Luis M. Botana
Dr. Amparo Alfonso
Dr. Schonna R. Manning
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- cyanotoxins
- phycotoxins
- biofilm
- bentic cyanobacteria
- climate change
- eutrophication
- bio-monitoring
- detection
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