Isolated from a toxin-producing dinoflagellate. Alcanivorax sp. DG881

Alcanivorax sp. DG881. Alcanivorax sp. DG881 was isolated from the dinoflagellate Gymnodinium catenatum which produces a toxin that causes paralytic shellfish poisoning. This organism can stimulate dinoflagellate growth and may play an important role in the marine carbon cycle.