| patterns of experimental contamination by protogonyaulax tamarensis in some french commercial shellfish. | as a result of the proliferation of toxic marine dinoflagellates along european coasts and the recent discovery of paralytic poisons in french shellfish, experimental studies were conducted on four species of shellfish from the brittany coasts. contamination rates of a culture of toxic protogonyaulax tamarensis, were determined for mytilus edulis, crassostrea gigas, pecten maximus and ruditapes philippinarum. mussels and scallops were very rapidly contaminated showing high toxin accumulation rat ... | 1989 | 2629173 |