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International Journal on Algae

ISSN for PRINT: 1521-9429

Institutional price:	$905.00
Issues per year:	4

Best Paper Award Selection - Editorial Board Site

2001, Volume3

128 pages

Issue price - $216.00

Phaeodactylum tricornutum Bohl. (Chrysophyta) as a test object. Range of salinity resistance

S. Ye. Dyatlov
Odessa Branch of the A.O. Kavalevsky Institute of Biology of Southern Seas, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 37. Pushkinskaya St., 65011 Odessa, Ukraine

A. G. Petrosyan
Odessa Branch of the A.O. Kavalevsky Institute of Biology of Southern Seas, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 37. Pushkinskaya St., 65011 Odessa, Ukraine

ABSTRACT

The paper discusses a methodology of using Phaeodactylum tricornutum Bohl. for biotesting contaminated natural and waste marine waters with changing salinity. It is shown that while studying algal growth indicators within the range of salinity 10-15 ^o/_oo, the laboratory culture of P. tricornutum does not need any preliminary adaptation. In the range of 5-8 ^o/_oo, the cultures are viable, but some preliminary adaptation is required. Fresh water is a short-time "temporary adaptation zone" for P. tricornutum.