U.S.-China Cooperative Research: Red Tide Phytoplankton of The South and East China Sea

唐纳德·特朗普与美国总统奥巴马 伍兹霍尔海洋研究所的安德森和齐玉藻， 暨南大学，中国广州，是识别，隔离， 培养和鉴定中国赤潮浮游植物 物种的毒性，生理学，地理 分布和与特定毒性事件的联系。 在过去十年中， 有害藻华（俗称“红潮”）的影响 在中国沿海沃茨急剧增加。 一个新 中国已建立的国家赤潮研究计划包括 计划描述的分类学，生理学和毒理学， 中国沿海沃茨的原生物种，但迄今为止只有一种 十种重要的有害浮游植物中的一种正在培养中， 以及一些必要的设备和专业知识， 毒理学和生理学表征不可用 在中国 该项目代表着朝着以下目标迈出的一步： 建立有害的中国文化收藏 浮游植物种类和记录它们的分类学，生理学， 毒理学空间分布和生态学 这项工作将 有助于更全面地了解磁场行为 和特征的有毒水华物种分离， 美国沿海沃茨的人口地理。

The general objective of this cooperative project between Donald Anderson, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and Qi Yuzao, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China, is to identify, isolate, culture, and characterize selected Chinese red tide phytoplankton species with respect to their toxicity, physiology, geographic distribution, and linkage to specific toxic events. During the last decade, the number, magnitude, and economic impacts of harmful algal blooms (commonly called "red tides") have increased dramatically in Chinese coastal waters. A newly established national red tide research program in China includes plans to characterize the taxonomy, physiology, and toxicology of species indigenous to Chinese coastal waters, yet so far only one of the ten important harmful phytoplankton species is in culture, and some of the necessary equipment and expertise for toxicological and physiological characterization is not available in China. This project represents one step toward the goal of establishing a Chinese culture collection of harmful phytoplankton species and documenting their taxonomy, physiology, toxicology, spatial distribution, and ecology. This work will contribute to more general understanding of the field behavior and characteristics of a toxic bloom species isolated by geography from populations in US coastal waters.