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  • Open Access
26 Citations
3,602 Views
14 Pages

Improvement of Biomass and Phycoerythrin Production by a Strain of Rhodomonas sp. Isolated from the Tunisian Coast of Sidi Mansour

  • Hana Derbel,
  • Jihen Elleuch,
  • Latifa Tounsi,
  • Marco Sebastiano Nicolo and ,
  • Maria Giovanna Rizzo,
  • Philippe Michaud,
  • Imen Fendri and
  • Slim Abdelkafi
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

24 June 2022

Microalgae are photoautotrophic microorganisms known as producers of a large variety of metabolites. The taxonomic diversity of these microorganisms has been poorly explored. In this study, a newly isolated strain was identified based on the 18S rRNA...

(This article belongs to the Section Natural and Bio-derived Molecules)
  • Article
  • Open Access
64 Citations
15,596 Views
15 Pages

In Vitro Antioxidant and Anti-Inflammatory Activities of Bioactive Proteins and Peptides from Rhodomonas sp.

  • Hana Derbel,
  • Jihen Elleuch,
  • Wael Mahfoudh,
  • Philippe Michaud and ,
  • Imen Fendri and
  • Slim Abdelkafi
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

2 March 2023

Thanks to their various promising properties, bioactive peptides extracted from microalgae have recently attracted great attention from scientists. These compounds have been mostly obtained by enzymatic hydrolysis. In the present study, proteins from...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Polysaccharides: From Extraction to Applications 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,892 Views
15 Pages

Influence of Dietary Microalgae on Acartia tonsa Copepod Microbiome

  • Jiantong Feng,
  • Maurizio Mazzei,
  • Giacomo Bernabei,
  • Valentina Vitiello and ,
  • Xiaojun Yan,
  • Isabella Buttino and
  • Simona Di Gregorio
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

This study investigates the effect of different microalgae diets on the microbiomes associated with the marine copepod Acartia tonsa. Copepods were fed with two different mixed-diet compositions: (i) Isochrysis galbana (ISO) and Rhinomonas reticulata...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,843 Views
16 Pages

Temporal and Seasonal Variations in a Phytoplankton Community Structure in Artificial Lake Uiam, South Korea

  • Jong-Kwon Im,
  • Youn-Bo Sim,
  • Soon-Jin Hwang,
  • Myeong-Seop Byeon and
  • Tae-Gu Kang

28 November 2023

Lake Uiam is situated midway through a basin with dams at both the upstream and downstream ends; considerable environmental fluctuations have been observed here. However, studies on changes in environmental factors and plankton community fluctuations...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Management of Eutrophication, Harmful Algal Bloom and Ecological Health in Freshwater Ecosystems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,461 Views
22 Pages

Frequent predation induces various defense strategies in prey, including morphological changes or migration patterns in zooplankton. We hypothesized that the winter dominance of Cyclops vicinus in the Upo Wetlands, South Korea, is an evolved temporal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,271 Views
18 Pages

Shewanella sp. IRI-160 is an algicidal bacterium that secretes an algicide, IRI-160AA. This algicide specifically targets dinoflagellates, while having no adverse effects on other algal species tested. Dinoflagellates exposed to IRI-160AA exhibited i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Metabolomics in Chemical Ecology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,536 Views
10 Pages

13 June 2022

In the quest of finding local strains of marine ciliates that can be easily cultured under a broad range of salinity and fed with microalgae, Fabrea salina Henneguy, 1890 and Condylostoma sp. Bory de St. Vincent, 1826 were cultured for 22 days in sma...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,903 Views
16 Pages

4 November 2022

The locally isolated harpacticoid copepods Tigriopus sp. and Tisbe holothuriae were subjected to salinity tolerance experimentation at salinities under and above of 40 ppt, and presented high halotolerances in Tigriopus LC50 (24 h) of 1 ±...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Challenges in Marine Aquaculture Research)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,623 Views
24 Pages

Taxonomic Composition of Protist Communities in the Coastal Stratified Lake Kislo-Sladkoe (Kandalaksha Bay, White Sea) Revealed by Microscopy

  • Yulia V. Mindolina,
  • Elena A. Selivanova,
  • Marina E. Ignatenko,
  • Elena D. Krasnova and ,
  • Dmitry A. Voronov and
  • Andrey O. Plotnikov
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

29 December 2022

Lake Kislo-Sladkoe is a stratified water body partly isolated from the White Sea. Perennial meromixis in the lake irregularly alternates with mixing events. Taking into account that the protists of Arctic coastal stratified water bodies are understud...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Ecology of Microbes in Marine and Estuarine Ecosystems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,805 Views
16 Pages

26 July 2022

The accumulation and production of biochemical compounds in microalgae are influenced by available light quality and algal species-specific features. In this study, four freshwater cryptophyte strains (Cryptomonas ozolinii, C. pyrenoidifera, C. curva...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Microalgae Biotechnology)