Gracilaria edulis

Polycavemosa tsudai [= Gracilaria edulis], Gigartinales, Rhodoph./toxin... 

Yotsu-Yamashita, M., Haddock, R.L. andYasumoto, T. 1993. Polycavernoside A ANovel Glycosidic Macrolide from the Red Alga Poly cavernosetsudai Gracilaria edulis). Journal cf the American Chemical Society 115(3), 1147-1148. 

Costanzo, S. D., O Donohue, M. J., and Dennison, W. C. (2000). Gracilaria edulis (Rhodophyta) as a biological indicator of pulsed nutrients in oligotrophic waters.]. Phycol. 36, 680-685. 

Yotsu-Yamashita, M., Haddock, R. L., and Yasumoto, T. (1993). Polycavemoside A A novel glycosidic macrolide from the red alga Polycavemosa tsudai (Gracilaria edulis). J. Am. Chem. Soc. 115,1147-1148. 

Yotsu-Yamashita, M. et al., Identification of polycavernoside A as the causative agent of the fatal food poisoning resulting from ingestion of the red alga Gracilaria edulis in the Philippines, Chem. Res. Toxicol, 17, 1265, 2004. 

Taya, Y. and Yotsu-Yamashita, M., Biological activities of human lethal toxin polycavernosides from the red alga, Gracilaria edulis, in Proc. 2nd Tohoku University Bio-Science Symposium, Shoji, T., Ed., Sendai, Japan, 2005, 124. 

M. Yotsu-Yamashita, R.L. Haddock, and T. Yasumoto, Polycavernoside A a novel glycosidic macrolide from the red alga Polycavernose tsudai (Gracilaria edulis). Journal of American Chemical Society 115 (1993) 1147-1148. 

Yotsu-Yamachita, M., Abe, K, Seki, T, Fujiwara, K and Yasumoto, T. (2007) Polycavernoside C and C2, the new analogs of the human lethal toxin polycavenoside A, from the red alga, Gracilaria edulis. Tetrahedron Lett., 48, 2255-2259. 

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