Experimental feeding of Hydrilla verticillata colonized by stigonematales cyanobacteria induces vacuolar myelinopathy in painted turtles (Chrysemys picta).

Vacuolar myelinopathy (VM) is a neurologic disease primarily found in birds that occurs when wildlife ingest submerged aquatic vegetation colonized by an uncharacterized toxin-producing cyanobacterium (hereafter "UCB" for "uncharacterized cyanobacterium"). Turtles are among the c...

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Main Authors: Albert D Mercurio, Sonia M Hernandez, John C Maerz, Michael J Yabsley, Angela E Ellis, Amanda L Coleman, Leslie M Shelnutt, John R Fischer, Susan B Wilde
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/05b701afd96e449daa93692c2a843f53
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