In this Focus article, the authors ask a seemingly simple question: Are harmful algal blooms
(HABs) becoming the greatest inland water quality threat to public health and aquatic …

This monograph reviews marine micro-algal species from all origins around the globe for
their toxic or harmful character. We have considered the ex-pressions toxic and harmful in …

The development of anthropic activities during the 20th century increased the nutrient fluxes
in freshwater ecosystems, leading to the eutrophication phenomenon that most often …

Abstract The world's 1.4 million lakes (≥ 10 ha) provide many ecosystem services that are
essential for human well‐being; however, only if their health status is good. Here, we …

Since the mid-1980s, fish-killing blooms of Prymnesium parvum spread throughout the USA.
In the south central USA, P. parvum blooms have commonly spanned hundreds of …

Members of Prymnesium belong to the division Haptophyta, class Prymnesiophyceae, order
Prymnesiales and family Prymnesiaceae. As most haptophytes, members of the genus …

Prymnesium parvum are harmful haptophyte algae that cause massive environmental fish
kills. Their polyketide polyether toxins, the prymnesins, are among the largest nonpolymeric …

Fish-killing microalgal blooms are responsible for much greater global socio-economic
impacts than the well-studied HAB species causing seafood biotoxin contamination …

Prymnesium parvum is a toxin-producing microalga, which causes harmful algal blooms
globally, frequently leading to massive fish kills that have adverse ecological and economic …

Blooms of Prymnesium parvum, a unicellular alga globally distributed in marine and
brackish environments, frequently result in massive fish kills due to the production of toxins …