Gymnodinium

Gymnodinium
Genus of marine dinoflagellates that includes the unicellular organism that causes red tide.
- G. breve a species of microscopic algae that causes red tide; it produces a toxin that affects the central nervous system of fish, paralyzing and killing them.

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Gym·no·din·i·um .jim-nə-'din-ē-əm n a large genus (the type of the family Gymnodiniidae) of marine and freshwater naked dinoflagellates that includes forms which are colorless or tinted yellowish to reddish brown, blue, or green by chromatophores and a few forms which cause red tide

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Gym·no·din·i·um (jim″no-dinґe-əm) [gymno- + Gr. dinein to whirl] a genus of plantlike marine and freshwater protozoa of the phylum Dinoflagellata; most species have many colored (yellow, brown, green, or blue) chromatophores. Like other dinoflagellates, they produce red tide when present in vast numbers. G. breve has been renamed Karenia brevis.

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  • Gymnodinium —   Gymnodinium …   Wikipedia Español

  • gymnodinium — /jim neuh din ee euhm/, n., pl. gymnodinia / din ee euh/. any marine or freshwater dinoflagellate of the genus Gymnodinium, certain species of which cause red tide. [ < NL, equiv. to gymno GYMNO + Gk dín(ein) to whirl + NL ium IUM] * * * ▪… …   Universalium

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  • Gymnodinium — Organismos unicelulares de la división Dinophyta, clase Dinophyceae, clase Dinophyceae, orden Gymnodiniales. Con dos flagelos heterocontos en el sulco y el cíngulo …   Enciclopedia Universal

  • gymnodinium — gym·no·din·i·um …   English syllables

  • Karenia brevis — Systematik Unterreich: Alveolaten (Alveolata) Stamm: Dinozoa …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Phototrophie — Die Rotalge Stylonema alsidii ist phototroph. Phototrophie oder Fototrophie (von altgriechisch φῶς phos = das Licht + τροφή trophé = die Ernährung) bezeichnet die Nutzung von Licht als Energiequelle durch Lebewesen. Das Licht wird gebraucht …   Deutsch Wikipedia

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