Cyanobacteria toxins protect tiny lake dwellers from parasites
Wednesday, January 16, 2019 - 10:00
in Biology & Nature
The cyanobacteria blooms that plague western Lake Erie each summer are both an unsightly nuisance and a potential public health hazard, producing liver toxins that can be harmful to humans and their pets. But the toxins produced in cyanobacteria blooms may also have protective effects on sand-grain-sized lake animals that ingest them, much as the […]