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Melliti Ben Garali S, Sahraoui I, Ben Othman H, Kouki A, de la Iglesia P, Diogène J, Lafabrie C, Andree KB, Fernández-Tejedor M, Mejri K, Meddeb M, Pringault O, Hlaili AS. Capacity of the potentially toxic diatoms Pseudo-nitzschia mannii and Pseudo-nitzschia hasleana to tolerate polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY 2021; 214:112082. [PMID: 33721579 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2021.112082] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2020] [Revised: 02/15/2021] [Accepted: 02/17/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
Abstract
This study investigates the effects of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) on two potentially toxic Pseudo-nitzschia hasleana and P. mannii, isolated from a PAH contaminated marine environment. Both species, maintained in non-axenic cultures, have been exposed during 144 h to increasing concentrations of a 15 PAHs mixture. Analysis of the domoic acid, showed very low concentrations. Dose-response curves for growth and photosynthesis inhibition were determined. Both species have maintained their growth until the end of incubation even at the highest concentration tested (120 µg l-1), Nevertheless, P mannii showed faster growth and seemed to be more tolerant than P. hasleana. To reduce PAH toxicity, both species have enhanced their biovolume, with a higher increase for P. mannii relative to P hasleana. Both species were also capable of bio-concentrating PAHs and were able to degrade them probably in synergy with their associated bacteria. The highest biodegradation was observed for P. mannii, which could harbored more efficient hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria. This study provides the first evidence that PAHs can control the growth and physiology of potentially toxic diatoms. Future studies should investigate the bacterial community associated with Pseudo-nitzschia species, as responses to pollutants or to other environmental stressors could be strongly influence by associated bacteria.
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Affiliation(s)
- Sondes Melliti Ben Garali
- Laboratoire de Biologie Végétale et Phytoplanctonologie, Faculté des Sciences de Bizerte, Université de Carthage, Bizerte, Tunisia; Université de Tunis El Manar, Faculté des Sciences de Tunis, LR18ES41 Sciences de l'Environnement, Biologie et Physiologie des Organismes Aquatiques, Tunis, Tunisia.
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- Laboratoire de Biologie Végétale et Phytoplanctonologie, Faculté des Sciences de Bizerte, Université de Carthage, Bizerte, Tunisia; Université de Tunis El Manar, Faculté des Sciences de Tunis, LR18ES41 Sciences de l'Environnement, Biologie et Physiologie des Organismes Aquatiques, Tunis, Tunisia
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- Laboratoire de Biologie Végétale et Phytoplanctonologie, Faculté des Sciences de Bizerte, Université de Carthage, Bizerte, Tunisia
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- Laboratoire de Microscopie électronique et de Microanalyse, Faculté des Sciences de Bizerte, Université de Carthage, Bizerte, Tunisia
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- Institut de Recherche et Technologie Agroalimentaire (IRTA), Ctra. Poble Nou, Km 5.5, Sant Carles de la Rapita, 43540 Tarragona, Spain
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- Institut de Recherche et Technologie Agroalimentaire (IRTA), Ctra. Poble Nou, Km 5.5, Sant Carles de la Rapita, 43540 Tarragona, Spain
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- UMR 9190 MARBEC IRD-Ifremer-CNRS-Université de Montpellier, Place Eugéne Bataillon, Case 093, 34095 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
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- Institut de Recherche et Technologie Agroalimentaire (IRTA), Ctra. Poble Nou, Km 5.5, Sant Carles de la Rapita, 43540 Tarragona, Spain
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- Institut de Recherche et Technologie Agroalimentaire (IRTA), Ctra. Poble Nou, Km 5.5, Sant Carles de la Rapita, 43540 Tarragona, Spain
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- Laboratoire de Biologie Végétale et Phytoplanctonologie, Faculté des Sciences de Bizerte, Université de Carthage, Bizerte, Tunisia; Université de Tunis El Manar, Faculté des Sciences de Tunis, LR18ES41 Sciences de l'Environnement, Biologie et Physiologie des Organismes Aquatiques, Tunis, Tunisia
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- Laboratoire de Biologie Végétale et Phytoplanctonologie, Faculté des Sciences de Bizerte, Université de Carthage, Bizerte, Tunisia; Université de Tunis El Manar, Faculté des Sciences de Tunis, LR18ES41 Sciences de l'Environnement, Biologie et Physiologie des Organismes Aquatiques, Tunis, Tunisia
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- UMR 9190 MARBEC IRD-Ifremer-CNRS-Université de Montpellier, Place Eugéne Bataillon, Case 093, 34095 Montpellier Cedex 5, France; UMR 110 MOI Institut Méditerranéen d'Océanologie, UniversitéAix Marseille, Université de Toulon, CNRS, IRD, Marseille, France
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- Laboratoire de Biologie Végétale et Phytoplanctonologie, Faculté des Sciences de Bizerte, Université de Carthage, Bizerte, Tunisia; Université de Tunis El Manar, Faculté des Sciences de Tunis, LR18ES41 Sciences de l'Environnement, Biologie et Physiologie des Organismes Aquatiques, Tunis, Tunisia
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Kahla O, Melliti Ben Garali S, Karray F, Ben Abdallah M, Kallel N, Mhiri N, Zaghden H, Barhoumi B, Pringault O, Quéméneur M, Tedetti M, Sayadi S, Sakka Hlaili A. Efficiency of benthic diatom-associated bacteria in the removal of benzo(a)pyrene and fluoranthene. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2021; 751:141399. [PMID: 32866829 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141399] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2020] [Revised: 07/29/2020] [Accepted: 07/29/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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We investigated the efficiency of a benthic diatom-associated bacteria in removing benzo(a)pyrene (BaP) and fluoranthene (Flt). The diatom, isolated from a PAH-contaminated sediment of the Bizerte Lagoon (Tunisia), was exposed in axenic and non-axenic cultures to PAHs over 7 days. The diversity of the associated bacteria, both attached (AB) and free-living bacteria (FB), was analyzed by the 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing. The diatom, which maintained continuous growth under PAH treatments, was able to accumulate BaP and Flt, with different efficiencies between axenic and non-axenic cultures. Biodegradation, which constituted the main process for PAH elimination, was enhanced in the presence of bacteria, indicating the co-metabolic synergy of microalgae and associated bacteria in removing BaP and Flt. Diatom and bacteria showed different capacities in the degradation of BaP and Flt. Nitzschia sp. harbored bacterial communities with a distinct composition between attached and free-living bacteria. The AB fraction exhibited higher diversity and abundance relative to FB, while the FB fraction contained genera with the known ability of PAH degradation, such as Marivita, Erythrobacter, and Alcaligenes. Moreover, strains of Staphylococcus and Micrococcus, isolated from the FB community, showed the capacity to grow in the presence of crude oil. These results suggest that a "benthic Nitzschia sp.-associated hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria" consortium can be applied in the bioremediation of PAH-contaminated sites.
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- Oumayma Kahla
- Laboratoire of Phytoplanctonology, Faculty of Sciences of Bizerte, University of Carthage, Bizerte, Tunisia; University El Manar of Tunis, Faculty of Sciences of Tunis, Laboratory of Environmental Sciences, Biology and Physiology of Aquatic Organisms LR18ES41, Tunis, Tunisia
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- Laboratoire of Phytoplanctonology, Faculty of Sciences of Bizerte, University of Carthage, Bizerte, Tunisia; University El Manar of Tunis, Faculty of Sciences of Tunis, Laboratory of Environmental Sciences, Biology and Physiology of Aquatic Organisms LR18ES41, Tunis, Tunisia
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- Laboratory of Environmental Bioprocesses, Centre of Biotechnology of Sfax, BP 1177, 3018 Sfax, Tunisia
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- Laboratory of Environmental Bioprocesses, Centre of Biotechnology of Sfax, BP 1177, 3018 Sfax, Tunisia
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- Laboratory of Environmental Bioprocesses, Centre of Biotechnology of Sfax, BP 1177, 3018 Sfax, Tunisia
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- Laboratory of Environmental Bioprocesses, Centre of Biotechnology of Sfax, BP 1177, 3018 Sfax, Tunisia
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- Laboratory of Environmental Bioprocesses, Centre of Biotechnology of Sfax, BP 1177, 3018 Sfax, Tunisia
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- Laboratory of Hetero-Organic Compounds and Nanostructured Materials (LR18ES11), Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences of Bizerte, University of Carthage, 7021 Zarzouna, Tunisia
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- Aix Marseille Univ., University of Toulon, CNRS, IRD, MIO UM 110, 13288 Marseille, France
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- Aix Marseille Univ., University of Toulon, CNRS, IRD, MIO UM 110, 13288 Marseille, France
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- Aix Marseille Univ., University of Toulon, CNRS, IRD, MIO UM 110, 13288 Marseille, France
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- Center for Sustainable Development, College of Arts and Sciences, Qatar University, Doha 2713, Qatar
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- Laboratoire of Phytoplanctonology, Faculty of Sciences of Bizerte, University of Carthage, Bizerte, Tunisia; University El Manar of Tunis, Faculty of Sciences of Tunis, Laboratory of Environmental Sciences, Biology and Physiology of Aquatic Organisms LR18ES41, Tunis, Tunisia.
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Olesen AJ, Harðardóttir S, Daugbjerg N, Andersen P, Lyngsgaard M, Krock B, Lundholm N. The impact of urea on toxic diatoms - Potential effects of fertilizer silo breakdown on a Pseudo-nitzschia bloom. HARMFUL ALGAE 2020; 95:101817. [PMID: 32439060 DOI: 10.1016/j.hal.2020.101817] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2019] [Revised: 04/10/2020] [Accepted: 04/14/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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In spring 2016, two silos containing liquid nitrogen-containing fertilizer collapsed on a harbor in Fredericia, Denmark. More than 2,750 tons of fertilizer spilled into inner Danish waters. A bloom of Pseudo-nitzschia occurred approximately one month after the incident. The bloom caused a 5-week quarantine of numerous mussel-harvesting areas along the eastern coast of Jutland. The levels of domoic acid measured up to 49 mg kg-1 in mussel meat after the bloom. In the months following the event, the species diversity of phytoplankton was low, while the abundance was high comprising few dominant species including Pseudo-nitzschia. The main part of the liquid nitrogen-containing compound was urea, chemically produced for agricultural use. To investigate the potential impact of urea on Pseudo-nitzschia, four strains, including one strain of P. delicatissima, two of P. seriata and one of P. obtusa, were exposed each to three concentrations of urea in a batch culture experiment: 10 μM, 20 μM and 100 μM N urea, and for comparison one concentration of nitrate (10 μM). Nitrate, ammonium, and urea were metabolized at different rates. Pseudo-nitzschia obtusa produced domoic acid and grew best at low urea concentrations. Both P. seriata strains had a positive correlation between urea concentration and growth rate, and the highest growth rate in the nitrate treatment. One strain of P. seriata produced domoic acid peaking at low N loads (10 µM N urea and 10 µM N nitrate). In conclusion, the ability to adapt to the available nitrogen source and retain a high growth rate was exceedingly varying and not only species-specific but also strain specific.
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- Anna J Olesen
- Natural History Museum of Denmark, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farimagsgade 5, 1353 Copenhagen K, Denmark.
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- Natural History Museum of Denmark, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farimagsgade 5, 1353 Copenhagen K, Denmark; Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Department of Glaciology and Climate, Øster Voldgade 10, 1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark; Université Laval, Département de Biologie, Pavillon C-É Marchand, G1V 0A6 Québec City, Quebec, Canada
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- Marine Biological Section, Dept of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 4, 1st floor, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Orbicon, Department for Nature and Environment, Jens Juuls vej 16, 8260 Viby, Denmark
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- Alfred Wegener Institut-Helmholtz Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung, Chemische Ökologie, Am Handelshafen 12, 27570 Bremerhaven, Germany
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- Natural History Museum of Denmark, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farimagsgade 5, 1353 Copenhagen K, Denmark
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Bates SS, Hubbard KA, Lundholm N, Montresor M, Leaw CP. Pseudo-nitzschia, Nitzschia, and domoic acid: New research since 2011. HARMFUL ALGAE 2018; 79:3-43. [PMID: 30420013 DOI: 10.1016/j.hal.2018.06.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 154] [Impact Index Per Article: 25.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2018] [Revised: 06/04/2018] [Accepted: 06/04/2018] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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Some diatoms of the genera Pseudo-nitzschia and Nitzschia produce the neurotoxin domoic acid (DA), a compound that caused amnesic shellfish poisoning (ASP) in humans just over 30 years ago (December 1987) in eastern Canada. This review covers new information since two previous reviews in 2012. Nitzschia bizertensis was subsequently discovered to be toxigenic in Tunisian waters. The known distribution of N. navis-varingica has expanded from Vietnam to Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines and Australia. Furthermore, 15 new species (and one new variety) of Pseudo-nitzschia have been discovered, bringing the total to 52. Seven new species were found to produce DA, bringing the total of toxigenic species to 26. We list all Pseudo-nitzschia species, their ability to produce DA, and show their global distribution. A consequence of the extended distribution and increased number of toxigenic species worldwide is that DA is now found more pervasively in the food web, contaminating new marine organisms (especially marine mammals), affecting their physiology and disrupting ecosystems. Recent findings highlight how zooplankton grazers can induce DA production in Pseudo-nitzschia and how bacteria interact with Pseudo-nitzschia. Since 2012, new discoveries have been reported on physiological controls of Pseudo-nitzschia growth and DA production, its sexual reproduction, and infection by an oomycete parasitoid. Many advances are the result of applying molecular approaches to discovering new species, and to understanding the population genetic structure of Pseudo-nitzschia and mechanisms used to cope with iron limitation. The availability of genomes from three Pseudo-nitzschia species, coupled with a comparative transcriptomic approach, has allowed advances in our understanding of the sexual reproduction of Pseudo-nitzschia, its signaling pathways, its interactions with bacteria, and genes involved in iron and vitamin B12 and B7 metabolism. Although there have been no new confirmed cases of ASP since 1987 because of monitoring efforts, new blooms have occurred. A massive toxic Pseudo-nitzschia bloom affected the entire west coast of North America during 2015-2016, and was linked to a 'warm blob' of ocean water. Other smaller toxic blooms occurred in the Gulf of Mexico and east coast of North America. Knowledge gaps remain, including how and why DA and its isomers are produced, the world distribution of potentially toxigenic Nitzschia species, the prevalence of DA isomers, and molecular markers to discriminate between toxigenic and non-toxigenic species and to discover sexually reproducing populations in the field.
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- Stephen S Bates
- Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Gulf Fisheries Centre, P.O. Box 5030, Moncton, New Brunswick, E1C 9B6, Canada.
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- Fish and Wildlife Research Institute (FWRI), Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), 100 Eighth Avenue SE, St. Petersburg, FL 33701 USA; Woods Hole Center for Oceans and Human Health, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 266 Woods Hole Road, Woods Hole, MA, 02543 USA
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- Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Sølvgade 83S, DK-1307 Copenhagen K, Denmark
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- Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Villa Comunale, 80121 Naples, Italy
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- Bachok Marine Research Station, Institute of Ocean and Earth Sciences, University of Malaya, 16310 Bachok, Kelantan, Malaysia
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Radan RL, Cochlan WP. Differential toxin response of Pseudo-nitzschia multiseries as a function of nitrogen speciation in batch and continuous cultures, and during a natural assemblage experiment. HARMFUL ALGAE 2018; 73:12-29. [PMID: 29602500 DOI: 10.1016/j.hal.2018.01.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2017] [Revised: 01/04/2018] [Accepted: 01/08/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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The toxigenic diatom Pseudo-nitzschia multiseries Hasle, isolated from the U.S. Pacific Northwest, was examined in unialgal laboratory cultures and in natural assemblages during shipboard experiments, to examine cellular growth and domoic acid (DA) production as a function of nitrogen (N) substrate and availability expected during bloom development and decline. Laboratory experiments utilizing batch cultures conducted at saturating (120 μmol photons m-2 s-1) photosynthetic photon flux density (PPFD), demonstrated that P. multiseries (strain NWFSC-245) grows equally well on the three N substrates tested (nitrate [NO3-], ammonium [NH4+] and urea), and achieved an average specific growth rate of 0.83 d-1. Despite equivalent growth rates, cellular toxicity (particulate DA concentration normalized to cell abundance) varied as a function of N substrate, with urea-grown cells demonstrating 1.3- and 3.4-fold more toxicity than both NH4+- and NO3--grown cells. Cellular toxicity of the N-limited chemostat cultures, grown at a dilution rate of 0.48 d-1, were less than the cellular toxicity measured for the N-replete batch cultures for all three N substrates, but again cellular toxicity varied as a function of N substrate and the urea-supported cells were 3.5- and 4.3-fold more toxic than the respective NH4+- and NO3--supported cells. Starved cultures of P. multiseries showed no decline in cellular toxicity or change in the order of toxicity as a function of N substrate, and cells previously supported by urea were 13- and 5-fold more toxic than NH4+- and NO3--supported cells. At all three levels of N-sufficiency, the urea-grown cells consistently produced the highest concentration of particulate DA per cell compared to cells grown on either NO3- or NH4+. Shipboard N enrichment experiments using natural phytoplankton assemblages were conducted off the west coast of Washington in an area characterized by elevated concentrations of macronutrients and iron. All N (NO3-, NH4+ and urea) treatments showed significant increases in biomass (as measured by total and size-fractionated chlorophyll a) and the abundance of Pseudo-nitzschia species over the 6-d experiment. As with the unialgal laboratory experiments, cellular toxicity varied as a function of the N source supporting growth, and the planktonic assemblages enriched with either NH4+ or urea demonstrated greater cellular toxicity than the assemblages supported solely by NO3-. These laboratory and field results demonstrate that N substrate can regulate the toxicity of Pseudo-nitzschia species, and that N source should be considered when evaluating the potential effects of cultural eutrophication on the growth of toxigenic diatoms.
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- Regina L Radan
- Estuary and Ocean Science Center(2), San Francisco State University, 3150 Paradise Drive, Tiburon, CA, 94920-1205, USA
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- Estuary and Ocean Science Center(2), San Francisco State University, 3150 Paradise Drive, Tiburon, CA, 94920-1205, USA.
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