Marine Biotoxins: Detection, Environmental Behaviour and Toxic Effects
A special issue of Marine Drugs (ISSN 1660-3397). This special issue belongs to the section "Marine Toxins".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 659
Special Issue Editors
Interests: marine biotoxins; paralytic shellfish toxins; LC-MS; environmental behaviours; ecotoxicology
Interests: eutrophication; biodiversity of toxigenic algal species; marine phycotoxins; bioaccumulation and translocation; environmental risk assessment
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Over the last two decades, the distribution and intensity of harmful algal blooms (HABs) have been increasing, representing a common ecological disaster in most waters worldwide. Diverse toxigenic microalgae can produce hundreds of biotoxins, most of which can be transferred and accumulated along food chains, potentially threatening the sustainable development of mariculture and human health. In recent years, many advances have been made in the study of biotoxins, including accurate and rapid detection methods and the discovery of novel toxins and their biological sources, environmental behaviours, metabolic transformations, toxic effects, and biosynthesis.
This Special Issue will focus on new progress in detection methods, environmental behaviours, toxic effects, metabolic transformations, risk assessments, biosynthesis, and other aspects of marine biotoxins. In order to advance our knowledge of this important issue, we encourage experts in the field of marine biotoxins to contribute research papers and critical reviews on this topic for inclusion in our Special Issue.
Dr. Jiangbing Qiu
Dr. Yang Liu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- marine biotoxins
- phycotoxins
- detection and analysis methods
- environmental behaviours
- toxicology and risk assessment
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