A ‘One-Health Focus’ on Natural Marine Toxins
A special issue of Marine Drugs (ISSN 1660-3397). This special issue belongs to the section "Marine Toxins".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 January 2026 | Viewed by 918
Special Issue Editors
Interests: natural marine toxins; food safety and risk assessment; detoxification; biotransformation
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: natural marine toxins; isolation and structure elucidation; bioactive constituents and functions; food safety and toxicology; omics technologies
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Marine biotoxins, also referred to as phycotoxins, are derived from natural phenomena. One prominent manifestation of such natural occurrences is the harmful algal blooms (HABs). HABs are characterized by the massive proliferation of phytoplankton within marine ecosystems. Over the last 40 years, the capacity and monitoring efforts to detect harmful species and harmful events have significantly increased, thus increasing the reporting of harmful events and their socio-economic impacts on marine ecosystem and human health.
The incidence of HABs episodes has been on the rise, primarily driven by environmental and climatic conditions, as well as eutrophication. These natural toxins are produced by unicellular microalgae. Through the food chain, they bio-accumulate in various aquatic species, including bivalves, xanthid crabs, and pufferfish. Depending on the amount ingested, these toxins can pose a potential toxicity risk to humans.
Among the aquatic species significantly affected, bivalves are of particular note due to the growing interest in them, which has led to an increase in their production and consumption. Nevertheless, the existing body of knowledge regarding their chemistry, properties, and toxicological modes of action is fragmented and, to some extent, outdated.
For this Special Issue, we invite academic and industry scientists to submit reviews and original and conceptual research articles highlighting the research of the influence mechanism of the biological interactions between bivalves and algae on the formation process of marine biotoxin risks.
Prof. Dr. Zhijun Tan
Dr. Jixing Peng
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- harmful algae blooming
- risk assessment
- toxicity
- oxidative stress responses
- multi-omics analysis
- immune defense response
- bivalve
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