Project number: 1982-060
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $0.00
Organisation: Department of Agriculture and Fisheries EcoScience Precinct
Project start/end date: 27 Jun 2000 - 30 Jun 2000
Contact:
FRDC
TAGS
Toxin
Health And Safety
Consumer Health
Biotoxin

Objectives

1. Determine how populations of ciguatoxin, Gambierdiscus toxicus, vary spatially & seasonally in coral reef areas
2. examine relationship between crown-of-thorns starfish and G. toxicus
3. grow organism in pure culture
establish factors influencing toxin prod

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