(Embargoed) CHAPEL HILL - Coastal fish kills and a potential threat to public health previously linked to the single-celled marine creature Pfiesteria piscicida may be a case of mistaken identity.

The highly controversial multi-staged Pfiesteria microbe that has been blamed for large fish kills on America's Atlantic seaboard might be innocent if new research mapping its life cycle is correct.

To gauge the toxicity of Pfiesteria, the important single-celled fish predator that was the culprit behind a number of fish kills and fish diseases along the East Coast in the 1990s, researchers need ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Pfiesteria piscicida Steidinger & Burkholder, an estuarine dinoflagellate known to kill fish, has also been associated with neurocognitive ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. IT'S NAMED PFIESTERIA PISCICIDA--Latin for ""fish killer.'' All too apt ...

A team of researchers from the Hollings Marine Laboratory in Charleston, S.C., has uncovered a subtle chemical pathway by which a normally inoffensive algae can suddenly start producing a lethal toxin ...

CHAPEL HILL, N.C., June 20 (UPI) -- The microscopic marine creature Pfiesteria piscicida -- also known as "the cell from hell" -- may have been mistakenly identified as the culprit in recent fish ...

When the pfiesteria infested the waters of the Pocomoke River and hurt researchers in Maryland a month ago, the state began pushing for change. Now researchers are asking North Carolina to join the ...

If the microbe known as Pfiesteria had a brain -- and a set of vocal cords -- it would no doubt laugh out loud at how scientists, universities, and federal agencies have been sniping at one another in ...