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Using the marine harpacticoid copepod Tigriopus californicus, the effects of phytoplankton feeding deterrents and toxins were differentiated and measured. Eight compounds were tested for feeding deterrence and toxicity responses: four apo-fucoxanthinoids (apo-10′-fucoxanthinal, apo-12′-fucoxanthinal, apo-12-fucoxanthinal, and apo-13′-fucoxanthinone) and four well-known phycotoxins (domoic acid, okadaic acid, microcystin-LR, and a mixture of PSP-1 toxins). Since several of these compounds exhibited both feeding deterrence and toxicity, a model was developed to deconvolute the observed toxicity response from the observed feeding deterrence response, and to classify these compounds based on the degree of toxicity and/or feeding deterrence they exhibited towards T. californicus. Microcystin-LR, the PSP-1 toxins, and the four apo-fucoxanthinoids behaved only as feeding deterrents at low concentrations. Okadaic acid exhibited both toxicity and feeding deterrence at low concentrations, with the threshold concentration for feeding deterrence at a lower level than the threshold concentration for toxicity. Domoic acid acted only as a toxin at low concentrations, with all decreases in feeding resulting from the death of the copepod.
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Received: 4 November 1996 / Accepted: 3 December 1996
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Shaw, B., Andersen, R. & Harrison, P. Feeding deterrent and toxicity effects of apo-fucoxanthinoids and phycotoxins on a marine copepod (Tigriopus californicus). Marine Biology 128, 273–280 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002270050092
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s002270050092