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Content: Development of marine resources / Thomas J. Billy and Betty M. Hackley -- Paralytic shellfish poisoning : an emerging perspective / Clarice M. Yentsch -- Ciguatera seafood poisoning : overview / Edward P. Ragelis -- Miscellaneous seafood toxicants / Bruce W. Halstead -- Alaska's shellfish industry / Richard A. Nevé and Paul B. Reichardt -- Risks and benefits of seafood / Brenda C. Higgins and Albert C. Kolbye -- Ciguatera toxins : where do we go from here? / Norman J. Doorenbos -- Toxic dinoflagellates : taxonomic and biogeographic aspects with emphasis on Protogonyaulax / F.J.R. Taylor -- Historical perspective on paralytic shellfish poison / Edward J. Schantz -- Cryptic paralytic shellfish toxins / Sherwood Hall and Paul B. Reichardt -- Shellfish toxicity and dormant cysts in toxic dinoflagellate blooms / Donald M. Anderson -- Potential importance of an endoparasite of Gonyaulax in paralytic shellfish poisoning outbreaks / Louisa Nishitani, Raleigh Hood, John Wakeman, and Kenneth K. Chew -- Biosynthesis of paralytic shellfish toxins / Yuzuru Shimizu, Masaru Kobayashi, Almoursi Genenah, and Naoshi Ichihara -- Paralytic shellfish toxins in tropical waters / Yasukatsu Oshima, Yuichi Kotaki, Takako Harada, and Takeshi Yasumoto -- Paralytic shellfish toxins and finfish / Alan W. White -- Development of immunoassays for paralytic shellfish poisoning : a radioimmunoassay for saxitoxin / Robert E. Carlson, Marie L. Lever, Brian W. Lee, and Patrick E. Guire -- Response of the house fly to saxitoxins and contaminated shellfish / Alvin Siger, Bernard C. Abbott, and Maria Ross -- Determination of paralytic shellfish poisoning toxins by high pressure liquid chromatography / John J. Sullivan and Marleen M. Wekell -- Diarrhetic shellfish poisoning / Takeshi Yasumoto, Michio Murata, Yasukatsu Oshima, Gayle K. Matsumoto, and Jon Clardy -- Mode of action of ciguatera toxins / A.M. Legrand and R. Bagnis -- Ciguatoxigenic dinoflagellates from the Caribbean Sea / Donald R. Tindall, Robert W. Dickey, Rolland D. Carlson, and Gregory Morey-Gaines -- Lipid-extracted toxins from a dinoflagellate, Gambierdiscus toxicus / Donald M. Miller, Robert W. Dickey, and Donald R. Tindall -- Extraction of a water-soluble toxin from a dinoflagellate, Gambierdiscus toxicus / Robert W. Dickey, Donald M. Miller, and Donald R. Tindall -- Ecology of toxic dinoflagellates from the Caribbean Sea : effects of macroalgal extracts on growth in culture / Rolland D. Carlson, Gregory Morey-Gaines, Donald R. Tindall, and Robert W. Dickey -- Ciguatera in the Pacific : incidence and implications for marine resource development / Nancy Davis Lewis -- An enzyme immunoassay for the detection of ciguatoxin and competitive inhibition by related natural polyether toxins / Y. Hokama, L.H. Kimura, M.A. Abad, L. Yokochi, Paul J. Scheuer, M. Nukina, T. Yasumoto, D.G. Baden, and Y. Shimizu -- Effect of ciguatera-associated toxins on body temperature in mice / Phyllis R. Sawyer, David J. Jollow, Paul J. Scheuer, Richard York, Joseph P. McMillan, Nancy W. Withers, H. Hugh Fudenberg, and Thomas B. Higerd -- Occurrence and origin of tetrodotoxin / Harry S. Mosher and Frederick A. Fuhrman -- Tetrodotoxin determination methods / Yoshio Onoue, Tamao Noguchi, and Kanehisa Hashimoto -- Toxins from Florida's red tide dinoflagellate Ptychodiscus brevis / Daniel G. Baden, Thomas J. Mende, Mark A. Poli, and Ronald E. Block -- Public health and toxins from marine blue-green algae / Richard E. Moore -- Toxins from freshwater cyanobacteria / Wayne W. Carmichael and Nik A. Mahmood -- Studies on Aphanizomenon and Microcystis toxins / John J. Sasner, Jr., Miyoshi Ikawa, and Thomas L. Foxall -- Toxins of Microcystis aeruginosa and their hematological and histopathological effects / Harold W. Siegelman, William H. Adams, R