Cyanobacterial Protease Inhibitor Microviridin J Causes a Lethal Molting Disruption in Daphnia pulicaria
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Cyanobacterial protease inhibitor microviridin J causes a lethal molting disruption in Daphnia pulicaria.
Laboratory experiments identified microviridin J as the source of a fatal molting disruption in Daphnia species organisms feeding on Microcystis cells. The molting disruption was presumably linked to the inhibitory effect of microviridin J on daphnid proteases, suggesting that hundreds of further cyanobacterial protease inhibitors must be considered potentially toxic to zooplankton.
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عنوان ژورنال: Applied and Environmental Microbiology
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0099-2240,1098-5336
DOI: 10.1128/aem.70.8.5047-5050.2004