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Also known as Cyanobacteria Toxins, Cyanobacteria Toxin

thumb|upright=1.4|right|Green scum produced by and containing cyanobacteria, washed up on a rock in California during an algal bloom

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Contents
  • Background
  • Harmful algal blooms
  • Chemical structure
  • Cyclic peptides
  • Microcystins
  • Nodularins
  • Alkaloids
  • Anatoxin-''a''
  • Cylindrospermopsins
  • Saxitoxins
  • Aetokthonotoxin
  • Lipopolysaccharides
  • Amino acids
  • BMAA
  • Gallery
  • See also
  • References
  • External links

thumb|upright=1.4|right|Green scum produced by and containing cyanobacteria, washed up on a rock in California during an algal bloom

Cyanotoxins are toxins produced by cyanobacteria (also known as blue-green algae). Cyanobacteria are found almost everywhere, but particularly in lakes and in the ocean where, under high concentration of phosphorus conditions, they reproduce exponentially to form blooms. Blooming cyanobacteria can produce cyanotoxins in such concentrations that they can poison and even kill animals and humans. Cyanotoxins can also accumulate in other animals such as fish and shellfish, and cause poisonings such as shellfish poisoning.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “cyanotoxin” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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