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Volvocine Line

Evolution of Multicellularity in flagellated green algae

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ChlamydomonasChlamydomonas

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VolvoxVolvoxsee also see also Volvocine Evolution notes

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Protozoan Biodiversity

A guide to the major groupsSpecies seen in lab are marked with a

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Bauplan for protozoa

Small size (high SA:V) because of limitations imposed on by diffusion; allows for efficient nutrient assimilation (in photoautrotrophs and mixotrophs), excretion, and gas exchange

Locomotion provided by pseudopodia, cilia or flagella

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Bauplan for protozoa Feeding/nutrition:

Photoautotrophs Heterotrophs

Pinocytosis (cell drinking dissolved nutrients) Osmotroph - rely on uptake of small organic molecules Phagocytosis (cells eating solid particles) Use food vacuoles for intracellular digestion Some such as those with fixed shapes, may have

Cytostome (“cell mouth”) and Cytoproct (“cell anus”)

Mixotrophs - heterotrophs or photoautotrophs

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Bauplan for protozoa

Very sensitive to external stimuli, but do not have a nervous system; some may have sensory cilia

May respond to Light Mechanical stimuli Chemical gradients Temperature gradients;

Reproduction varies: sexual or asexual (binary fission, multiple fission, budding)

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Supergroups

Excavata: feeding groove, phagotrophy Euglenozoa: flagella, Euglena mitochondria Archaeplastida: algae Alveolata: alveoli Stramenopila: very diverse, straw-like hairs on

flagella Rhizaria: plankton, pseudopodia Amoebozoa: pseudopodia, slime molds Opisthokonta: single posterior flagellum

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Phylogeny

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Supergroup Excavata

Related to some of Earth’s earliest eukaryotes

Named for a feeding groove “excavated” into the cells of many representatives

Food particles are taken into cells by phagotrophy Endocytosis and evolutionary basis for

endosymbiosis

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Supergroup Excavata

Jakoba libera

Flagellated protozoans •Single-celled heterotrophs with flagella•Unwalled cells, pellicle retains shape

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Zooflagellates

Excavata (clade?) Primitive flagellates

with multiple flagella & feeding groove

Lack Golgi apparatus, mitochondria lacking in some, highly modefied in others

Some important human parasites Giardia Trichomonas Trypanosoma

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Excavata, continued Giardia and some other excavates lack

mitochondria. This condition may be primitive or derived. Two separate haploid nuclei – look like big eyes!

Other excavates (e.g. Jakoba) have the most complete mitochondrial genome known - closest to bacterial genome - therefore primitive. Mitochondrial genome of other eukaryotes is

greatly reduced by gene transfer to cell nucleus

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Excavata - (excavate - feeding groove that terminates in a cytostome on the cell surface, usually associated with a posteriorly-directed flagellum; not present in all excavate taxa)

Diplomonadida Giardia

Parabasala Trichomonads Trichomonas

vaginalis Trichonymphs Trichonympha spp

Euglenozoa Trypanosomes Trypanosoma spp

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Diplomonadida and Parabasala Group that lacks

mitochondria Evolved before eukaryotes

acquired mitochondria But recent evidence

may suggest that these groups actually lost their mitochondria

Multiple flagella

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Diplomonadida* and Parabasala** Giardia lamblia* Trichonympha* Trichomonas

vaginalis**

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Giardia intestinalis (lamblia)

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Giardia intestinalis

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• Water in wilderness areas is often contaminated with cysts from animal feces.

• Cysts hatch in intestines and release trophozoites.

• Always boil and/or treat water before drinking.

• Print out full size slide of life cycle of parasite.

Giardiasis

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Giardiasis

Clinical Features: Disease varies from asymptomatic to severe diarrhea

and malabsorption. 

Acute giardiasis develops after an incubation period of 1 to 14 days (average of 7 days) and usually lasts 1 to 3 weeks. 

Symptoms include diarrhea, abdominal pain, bloating, nausea, and vomiting. 

In chronic giardiasis the symptoms are recurrent and malabsorption and debilitation may occur.

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Flagellates

Parabasalids Multiple flagella

(hypermastigote) Parabasal bodies-

modified Golgi apparatus Lack mitochondria All are symbiotes in animals Examples:

Trichonympha, Trichomonas

Trichonympha

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Trichonymphs

Trichonymphs (phylum Axostylata) are excavates with hundreds of flagella They live in the guts of wood-eating termites and

cockroaches Feed on wood particles consumed by the host

insect They rely on endosymbiotic bacteria to digest

cellulose So insect gets the energy and carbon from

bacterial metabolism – a long trip from wood!

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ParabasalidsTermite symbiotes

Guts of termites, wood roaches, other wood-eating insects.

Digestion of cellulose- ecologically critical function.

Acquisition at hatching and molting.

Mutualism Mutualistic bacteria inside

Trichonympha et al. digest the wood. Trichonympha

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Eastern termite: Reticulitermes flavipes12 symbiotic flagellates found in the gut(Yamin, M. A. 1979. Sociobiology, 4: 3-119)

1. Dinenympha fimbriata 2. Dinenympha gracilis  3. Holomastigotes elongatum  4. Microjoenia fallax  5. Monocercomonas sp.  6. Personympha major  7. Personympha vertens  8. Spironympha kofoidi  9. Spirotrichonympha flagellata  10. Spirotrichonympha sp.  11. Trichomonas trypanoides  12. Trichonympha agilis

12.7. 2.

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Joseph Leidy 1823-1891

Prominent American biologist- Univ. of Pennsylvania. Vertebrate paleontology, parasitology, other fields

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TrichonymphaTrichonympha

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TrichonymphaTrichonympha

Termite gut symbiontsTermite gut symbionts

StreblomastixStreblomastix

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Parabasalids

Trichomonads

• Commensal or parasitic flagellates with axostyle and parabasal body

• Trichomonas vaginalis (far right) in human urogenital tract.

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Trichomonas vaginalis Trichomoniasis = STD Clinical Features:

Trichomonas vaginalis infection in women is frequently symptomatic. 

Vaginitis with a purulent discharge is the prominent symptom, and can be accompanied by vulvar and cervical lesions, abdominal pain, dysuria and dyspareunia. 

The incubation period is 5 to 28 days.  In men, the infection is frequently asymptomatic;

occasionally, urethritis, epididymitis, and prostatitis can occur.

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Trichomonas vaginalis

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Euglenids

Phylum EuglenozoaToday’s euglenids are a modern rep-resentative of an ancient line of life, so different from other protists that some biologists have suggested placing them in a kingdom of their own.

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Supergroup Euglenozoa

Supergroup of flagellates named for Euglena

Disk-shaped mitochondrial cristae Euglenoids have unique interlocking

protein strips beneath plasma membranePellicle

Can crawl through mud – euglenoid movement or metaboly

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Euglenozoa

Discicristates

Discicristates

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Euglenozoa

Most euglenoids live in freshwaterSome have chloroplasts that arose by

secondary endosymbiosis from a green alga

Contractile vacuoles expel excess water

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Euglenozoa

Kinetoplastids have an unusually large mass of DNA (kinetoplast) Trypansosoma brucei Most are parasites Have a single giant

mitochondrion Biting insects are vectors Example: Trypanosomes

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Flagellates

Kinetoplastida Possess “kinetoplast” region of mitochondrion

Flagellum adheres to cell via “membrane” Includes important parasites of man and

domestic animals: Trypanosoma, Leishmania Digenetic life cycle (two hosts)

vertebrate Gut of blood-feeding insect (vector)

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Trypanosomes (Kinetoplastids) Trypanosomes (also in phylum Euglenozoa) are

colorless, mostly pathogenic parasites

They reproduce asexually by mitosis

Kinetoplast – contains extranuclear DNA

Trypanosoma brucei (gambiense) causes African sleeping sickness

T. cruzi causes Chagas’ disease of Central and South America and now potentially in the U.S.

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Tsetse fly

Vectors of trypanosome diseases

Trypanosomes in blood smear

Kissing bugKissing bug

Tsetse Fly

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25 µm

Flagellum

Red bloodcells

Trypanosomewith undulatingmembrane

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Figure 5.27

Trypanosoma cruzi Chagas disease

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Trypanosomiasis

T. cruzi life cycle Transmitted to man via

feces of bug Intracellular-

reproduces asexually, forming pseudocysts.

Return to bloodstream and picked up by bug with blood meal.

Do not show antigenic variation.

Triatomine refers to the subfamily Triatominae ofthe family Reduviidae

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Chagas’ Disease Clinical Features:

A local lesion can appear at the site of inoculation.  The acute phase is usually asymptomatic, but can present with manifestations that include fever, anorexia, lymphadenopathy, mild hepatosplenomegaly, neurological disorders, & myocarditis. 

Most acute cases resolve over a period of 2 to 3 months into an asymptomatic chronic stage.  The symptomatic chronic stage may not occur for years or even decades after initial infection.  Its manifestations include cardiomyopathy; pathologies of the digestive tract such as megaesophagus and megacolon; and weight loss.  Chronic Chagas disease and its complications can be fatal.

Charles Darwin may have contracted this disease in Chile during his voyage on the H.M.S. Beagle, which resulted in his infirmity in later life.

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Trypanosomiasis

American trypanosomiasis (Chagas disease) Trypanosoma cruzi 16-18 million persons

are infected 100 million are at risk 50,000 deaths

annually leading cause of heart

disease in South and Central America

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T. cruzi insect host: Triatoma (Order Hemiptera)

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Kinetoplastida

Trypanosoma T. rhodesiense and T.

gambiense cause African sleeping sickness in man.

T. brucei causes nagana in ungulates (hoofed mammals).

Insect host: tse-tse flies, Glossina

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TrypanosomiasisAfrican sleeping sickness

Often fatal if untreated. Anemia, fever, edema due to

swollen lymph nodes. Neurological symptoms-

dementia, lethargy, paralysis. Controlled in past decades by

anti-tse-tse programs- now increasing again.

300,000 cases/year

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African Sleeping Sickness

Bite reaction Parasitemia

Attacks of fever which starts 2-3 weeks after the bite CNS stage

Changes in character and personality Terminal stage is marked by wasting and

emaciation Death results from coma, intercurrent infection

or cardiac failure

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African trypanosomes

Quick-change artists - antigenic variation Fluctuating parasite

number- antigenically distinct forms.

VSG (variant surface glycoprotein) coats cell surface.

Cells switch between different versions of VSG.

Shed VSG causes problems

VSG

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Kinetoplastida

Leishmania

• vector: biting sandflies, Phlebotomus (O. Diptera)

• Zoonosis= mainly parasite of animals that also infects man

• reservoir hosts‑ various mammals‑ rodents, carnivores (including dogs)

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Leishmaniasis• Intracellular - infects

macrophages in mammal hosts.

• Visceral leishmaniasis suppresses immune response by destroying macrophages in lymph nodes, liver and spleen

• Cutaneous leishmaniasis causes skin ulcers.• 1.5-2 million clinical cases/year- estimate 12

million infected.

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Euglenids Cell surface covered by pellicle

Protein strips Unique among eukaryotes Consists of the plasma membrane, a series of

proteinaceous strips underneath the plasma membrane, and groups of microtubules associated with each strip.

Species with longitudinal strips have rigid cells; no metaboly

Species with spirally placed strips are flexible; have metaboly

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Euglenids

Photosynthetic species Store paramylon starch in single pyrenoid Have photosensitive eyespot or stigma, that helps orient

towards light Heterotrophic species can either absorb nutrients

from water or may feed on bacteria Two flagella

Long one has mastigonemes and is used for motility Second short flagella is not used for swimming

No sexual reproduction ever reported

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Euglena

Paramylon starch Paramylon starch around pyrenoidaround pyrenoid

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paramylon

Contractile vacuole

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Euglena acusEuglena acus On slideOn slide

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PeranemaPeranema

Anatomy similar to Euglena Anatomy similar to Euglena withoutwithout the chloroplasts and the chloroplasts and pyrenoids.pyrenoids.

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Peranema - notice the pellicle

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Peranema

Peranema is a predator, capturing and engulfing smaller euglenids. Two rods, located in the mouth area, are used to hold prey during engulfment.

In the euglenid line, as in most other flagellated protists, individuals divide longitudinally.

Division begins with duplication of the basal body at the base of the flagellum creating a cell with two flagella that then splits right down the middle.

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Alveolata

Dinoflagellates, apicomplexans, and ciliates

All contain membrane bounded cavities (alveoli)

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Supergroup Alveolata

All alveolates have tiny sacs (alveoli) beneath the plasma membraneAll single-celled

Examples: Ciliates, dinoflagellates, and apicomplexans

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Alveolates Group characteristics

Sacs (alveoli) lie immediately below the cell surface.

Have tubular inner membranes (cristae) in their mitochondria (Tubies).

Three major taxa with very different adaptive strategies Dinoflagellates (Mostly) parasitic apicomplexa; non-motile Ciliates.

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Supergroup Alveolata Ciliophora

Ciliates – conjugation Dinozoa

Dinoflagellates – some photosynthetic, others not Important in nearshore oceans

Apicomplexa Medically important parasites Plasmodium

*Named for saclike membranous vesicle (alveoli) present in cell periphery*

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Dinoflagellates

Subphylum Dinozoa = Dinoflagellata

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Dinoflagellates Often classed with algae Cell complexity

Single cells or chains of cells. How are their cells organized?

Mesokaryotes – permanently condensed chromosomes

Mitotic spindle located outside of the nucleus (which remains intact during mitosis)

What pigments do they possess? Chlorophyll a, Chlorophyll c and Peridinin.

What storage product is made? Starch and oils.

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Dinoflagellates

Cell wall features?  Most dinoflagellates are encased in plates of

armor. Thick cellulose plates encased in vesicles beneath the

cell membrane

Some are “naked” and lack these plates

2 flagella present. One trails behind One lies in groove around center of cell Cell spins slowly like a top as it swims

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Ceratium

Gonyaulax: Gonyaulax: an aan armoured dinoflagellate. Cell wall is subdivided into multiple polygonal vesicles filled with relatively thick cellulose plates

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A “naked” dinoflagellate. Cell wall does not have thickened cellulose armour plates.

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Note: Armored dinoflagellate. Know: cingulum, sulcus, hypotheca, epitheca, flagella

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Dinoflagellates

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Dinoflagellates

Some have elaborate eyespots called ocelli, which have a pigmented portion and a lens-like refractive portion.

Some have trichocysts, which are ejectile organelles similar to the nematocysts in Cnidarians. What other group of protists has these?

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CeratiumCeratium

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CeratiumCeratium

Note: nuclei with permanently condensed chromosomes

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Dinoflagellates Mature dinoflagellates are haploid (1n)

Dikaryotic nuclei – 2 haploid nucleipermanently condensed chromosomes

ReproductionMostly asexualReproduce by fissionA few can reproduce sexually

Gametes formed by mitosis (not meiosis) because the cells are already haploid.

Gametes (1n) are motile Zygotes (2n) formed by fusion of gametes also motile

mei

osis

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Dinoflagellates Ecology

90% are marine 10% freshwater About 50% are photosynthetic; the rest are

heterotrophs (parasites) Photosynthetic dinoflagellates are second only to

diatoms as primary producers in coastal waters. May be free-living or symbiotic

Zooxanthellae - symbionts of cnidarians and others

vital to the growth and survival of coral reefs

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Zooxanthellae

Dinoflagellate endosymbionts of animals and protozoa

Coral reef builders

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Zooxanthellae Symbiotic dinoflagellates found in many

marine invertebrates Genus Symbiodinium Sponges, corals, jellyfish, Tridacnid clams and

flatworms Also found within protists, such as ciliates,

foraminiferans, and colonial radiolarians.

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ZooxanthellaeZooxanthellae

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Zooxanthellae

Endosymbionts of animals and protozoa In coral polyps zooxanthellae are found in the

second layer of cells below the epidermis; one algal cell per animal cell.

Important components of reef building corals* Provide them with nutrients Remove waste Contribute to the production of calcium carbonate

skeletons

* More about this when we study Cnidarians

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Zooxanthellae

Mutualism Host organism ingests the dinoflagellate and

incorporate it into its own tissues without harming it.

Dinoflagellate divides repeatedly, and begins to manufacture carbohydrates which are provided to the host.

Many corals get all their food from the zooxanthellae; build reefs much faster with the dinoflagellates present in their tissues.

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ZooxanthellaeZooxanthellae

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Zooxanthellae

Recall observations on zooxanthellae in tissues of Aiptasia anemones from S219 aquarium

Cassiopeia jellyfish (aquarium) also have zooxanthellae and typically rest upside down in shallow mangrove beds. This provides maximum sun exposure for symbionts Jellyfish also feeds on passing zooplankton Blue structures are vesicular appendages that hold

zooxanthellae

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Aiptasia anemone with zooxanthellae

The upper layer of the Acropora sp. is the epidermis. The lower layer is the gastrodermis. Within the cells are round to oval golden spheres. These are the zooxanthellae.

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Cassiopeia, the Upside-Down Jelly or Mangrove Jelly (Figure 7), generally lies on upside-down on the substrate where it tends its internal garden of zooxanthellae, which give it a greenish color.  While there, the bell margins pulsate creating a current across the oral surface where plankton and other particles are subdued by nematocysts and caught in a gelatinous coating.  The captured particles are carried to the mouth or to other secondary mouths that occur on the oral arms.  These are animals of warm, shallow water of the West Indies, the Pacific, and the Indian Oceans.

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Coral Bleaching = loss of zooxanthellaeCauses – discussed with Cnidarians

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Bioluminescent Dinoflagellates

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Bioluminescence

Some dinoflagellates are capable of producing light - bioluminescenceMolecules made by the organism

produce light in a chemical reaction.

Luciferin and luciferase Same reaction that occurs in fireflies

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Health Issues

Many dinoflagellates produce neurotoxins Poisons that injure the nerves of marine life that feed on

the dinoflagellates May cause massive kills of fish and shellfish, as well as

other forms of marine life. If animals containing these toxins are eaten by humans,

the result may be illness or even death. Neurotoxins affect muscle function, preventing normal

transmission of electrochemical messages from the nerves to the muscles by interfering with the movement of sodium ions through the cellular membranes

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Health Issues

These toxins in the water can blow inland in sea spray and cause temporary health problems for people who live near the coast.

The toxin from Gonyaulax catenella is so toxic that an aspirin sized tablet of the poison could kill 35 people; it is one of the strongest known poisons

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Neurotoxins Saxitoxin - most common dinoflagellate toxin

100,000 times more potent than cocaine Found in North American shellfish from Alaska to Mexico,

and from Newfoundland to Florida Brevitoxin

Causes fish kills May also cause poisoning in humans when it accumulates

in the tissues of shellfish Red Tides

Population explosions of dinoflagellates that can color the water red.

Shellfish contain high levels of toxins during these times

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Gonyaulax and views of red tides

A red tide results from a population explosion of dinoflagellates (an algal bloom). Cell densities are so high that they turn the water a red color.

Boat

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Bioluminescent Red Tide

Noctiluca

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Neurotoxins Humans may be poisoned:

By eating contaminated fish - Ciguatera Or by eating shellfish, such as clams or mussels -

paralytic shellfish poisoning or PSP. Poisoning is serious but not usually fatal.

Lethal concentrations lead to death from respiratory failure and cardiac arrest within twelve hours of consumption

Old rule of thumb was that shellfish should only be eaten during months with an "R" in them, and not during May to August. Summer brings runoff of nutrients and blooms of dinoflagellates. NOT VERY RELIABLE!

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Noctiluca - a bioluminescent marine dinoflagellate; also causes red tides. Can feed heterotrophically by using its longer posterior flagellum to capture prey.

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Pfiesteria piscicida Ulcers on fish caused (?) by PfiesteriaNote the long flagella

Pfiesteria and some of its relatives cause death in fish and respiratory and neurological complications in humans