C yanotoxins: producing organisms, occurrence, toxicity, mechanism of action and human health toxicological risk evaluation

FM Buratti, M Manganelli, S Vichi, M Stefanelli… - Archives of …, 2017 - Springer
Cyanobacteria were present on the earth 3.5 billion years ago; since then they have
colonized almost all terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. They produce a high number of …

[HTML][HTML] State of knowledge and concerns on cyanobacterial blooms and cyanotoxins

S Merel, D Walker, R Chicana, S Snyder… - Environment …, 2013 - Elsevier
Cyanobacteria are ubiquitous microorganisms considered as important contributors to the
formation of Earth's atmosphere and nitrogen fixation. However, they are also frequently …

Cyanobacterial bioactive metabolites—A review of their chemistry and biology

IS Huang, PV Zimba - Harmful algae, 2019 - Elsevier
Cyanobacterial blooms occur when algal densities exceed baseline population
concentrations. Cyanobacteria can produce a large number of secondary metabolites …

Bloom dynamics of cyanobacteria and their toxins: environmental health impacts and mitigation strategies

RP Rastogi, D Madamwar… - Frontiers in microbiology, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Cyanobacteria are ecologically one of the most prolific groups of phototrophic prokaryotes in
both marine and freshwater habitats. Both the beneficial and detrimental aspects of …

Transformation of algal toxins during the oxidation/disinfection processes of drinking water: From structure to toxicity

H Dong, MT Aziz, SD Richardson - Environmental science & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
With the increase of algal blooms worldwide, drinking water resources are threatened by the
release of various algal toxins, which can be hepatotoxic, cytotoxic, or neurotoxic. Because …

The effects of harmful algal blooms on aquatic organisms

JH Landsberg - Reviews in fisheries science, 2002 - Taylor & Francis
This review provides an in-depth survey of the recorded incidences in aquatic organisms of
mortality and disease events suspected or known to be caused by microalgal or ciliate …

[HTML][HTML] On the chemistry, toxicology and genetics of the cyanobacterial toxins, microcystin, nodularin, saxitoxin and cylindrospermopsin

L Pearson, T Mihali, M Moffitt, R Kellmann, B Neilan - Marine drugs, 2010 - mdpi.com
The cyanobacteria or “blue-green algae”, as they are commonly termed, comprise a diverse
group of oxygenic photosynthetic bacteria that inhabit a wide range of aquatic and terrestrial …

A review of the phylogeny, ecology and toxin production of bloom-forming Aphanizomenon spp. and related species within the Nostocales (cyanobacteria)

S Cirés, A Ballot - Harmful algae, 2016 - Elsevier
The traditional genus Aphanizomenon comprises a group of filamentous nitrogen-fixing
cyanobacteria of which several memebers are able to develop blooms and to produce toxic …

Ecotoxicological effects of selected cyanobacterial secondary metabolites a short review

C Wiegand, S Pflugmacher - Toxicology and applied pharmacology, 2005 - Elsevier
Cyanobacteria are one of the most diverse groups of gram-negative photosynthetic
prokaryotes. Many of them are able to produce a wide range of toxic secondary metabolites …