• Phycotoxins (from Ancient Greek φῦκος (phûkos) 'seaweed' and τοξικόν (toxikón) 'poison, toxin') are complex allelopathic chemicals produced by eukaryotic...
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  • flew through the windshield of a car on the Pacific Coast Highway. The phycotoxin is found in the local coastal waters. According to the Channel Islands...
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  • Ciguatoxin (category Phycotoxins)
    Ciguatoxins are a class of toxic polycyclic polyethers found in fish that cause ciguatera. There are several different chemicals in this class. "CTX" is...
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    Maitotoxin (category Phycotoxins)
    Maitotoxin (MTX) is an extremely potent biotoxin produced by Gambierdiscus toxicus, a dinoflagellate species. Maitotoxin has been shown to be more than...
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    Palytoxin (category Phycotoxins)
    Palytoxin, PTX or PLTX is an intense vasoconstrictor, and is considered to be one of the most poisonous non-protein substances known, second only to maitotoxin...
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    occurrence of phycotoxins is generally associated with specific bodies of water and must be considered during establishment of farms as many phycotoxins derived...
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    Saxitoxin (category Phycotoxins)
    Saxitoxin (STX) is a potent neurotoxin and the best-known paralytic shellfish toxin. Ingestion of saxitoxin by humans, usually by consumption of shellfish...
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    2002). "Emerita analoga (Stimpson)—possible new indicator species for the phycotoxin domoic acid in California coastal waters". Toxicon. 40 (9): 1259–1265...
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    Domoic acid (category Phycotoxins)
    Retrieved 2 April 2015. Beasley, Val Richard (2020). "Harmful Algal Blooms (Phycotoxins)". Reference Module in Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences. Elsevier...
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  • ocean dweller. Gymnodimine is a nicotinic acetylcholine receptor-blocking phycotoxin, a source of shellfish poisoning. Common to the genus Karenia, this species...
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  • Prymnesiophyta). The species is of concern because of its ability to produce the phycotoxin prymnesin. It is a flagellated alga that is normally found suspended in...
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    Prymnesin-1 (category Phycotoxins)
    154Cl 3NO 44. It is a member of the prymnesins, a class of hemolytic phycotoxins made by the alga Prymnesium parvum. It is known to be toxic to fish,...
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  • 2323/jgam.48.335. PMID 12682872. Botana, Luis M.; Alfonso, Amparo (2015). Phycotoxins: Chemistry and Biochemistry. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 9781118500330. Type...
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    "Anatoxin-a and Analogues: Discovery, Distribution, and Toxicology.". Phycotoxins: Chemistry and Biochemistry. Blackwell Publishing. pp. 141–58. doi:10...
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    Trichodesmium aggregate in large numbers, it is possible for them to produce a phycotoxin that can affect the growth other microorganisms in the local space of...
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  • 0.026930-0. PMID 20952545. Botana, Luis M.; Alfonso, Amparo (2015). Phycotoxins: Chemistry and Biochemistry. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 9781118500330. Baker...
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    Debromoaplysiatoxin (category Phycotoxins)
    Debromoaplysiatoxin is a toxic agent produced by the blue-green alga Lyngbya majuscula. This alga lives in marine waters and causes seaweed dermatitis...
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  • Okadaic acid (category Phycotoxins)
    Okadaic acid, C44H68O13, is a toxin produced by several species of dinoflagellates, and is known to accumulate in both marine sponges and shellfish. One...
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  • Brevetoxin (category Phycotoxins)
    Brevetoxin (PbTx), or brevetoxins, are a suite of cyclic polyether compounds produced naturally by a species of dinoflagellate known as Karenia brevis...
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  • predation by covering their bodies in these plants. These plants produce phycotoxins, diterpenes such as pachydictyol-A and dictyol-E, which have been shown...
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    Ciguatoxin 1 (category Phycotoxins)
    Ciguatoxin 1 or CTX-1 is a toxic chemical compound, the most common and potent type in the group of ciguatoxins. It is a large molecule consisting of polycyclic...
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    Sephton D, Martin J and Chopin T. 2004. Monitoring of therapeutants and phycotoxins in kelps and mussels co-cultured with Atlantic salmon in an integrated...
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    Lucía; Rodríguez, Laura; Vieites, Juan; Cabado, Ana (2018-05-29). "Phycotoxins in Marine Shellfish: Origin, Occurrence and Effects on Humans". Marine...
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  • Prymnesin-2 (category Phycotoxins)
    Prymnesin-2 is an organic compound that is secreted by the haptophyte Prymnesium parvum. It belongs to the prymnesin family and has potent hemolytic and...
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    Prymnesin-B1 (category Phycotoxins)
    It is a member of the prymnesins, a class of ladder-frame polyether phycotoxins made by the alga Prymnesium parvum. It is known to be toxic to fish....
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    Yessotoxin (category Phycotoxins)
    Yessotoxins are a group of lipophilic, sulfur bearing polyether toxins that are related to ciguatoxins. They are produced by a variety of dinoflagellates...
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    has forty laboratories, for example: Aquaculture - Puerto Ángel Campus Phycotoxin Analysis (Larvatron) - Puerto Ángel Campus Food Analysis and Technology...
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  • Media. ISBN 9780387292984. Botana, Luis M.; Alfonso, Amparo (2015). Phycotoxins: Chemistry and Biochemistry. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 9781118500330. Shi...
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    lymphocytes over time following exposure to Azaspiracid-1 (AZ-10), a marine phycotoxin (GDS3429). C21orf58 expression was found to be up-regulated in teratozoospermic...
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    ISBN 978-1-4822-1069-9. Botana (2014), p. 1079 Botana, Luis M.; Alfonso, Amparo (2015). Phycotoxins: Chemistry and Biochemistry. Wiley Blackwell. p. 92. ISBN 9781118500361...
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