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Environmental Pressure Drives the Acquisition of Aetokthonotoxin Genes: A Bioinformatic Study of Avian Vacuolar Myelinopathy Origin

2026-04-20

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<title>Abstract</title> <italic>Aetokthonos hydrillicola</italic> is an epiphytic cyanobacterium found on the abaxial leaf surfaces of aquatic weeds. This species of cyanobacterium is responsible for aetokthonotoxin (AETX), which is biosynthesized from a six gene cluster ( <italic>aetA</italic> - <italic>F</italic> ) in the presence of bromine. The neurotoxin is ingested by coots and waterfowl consuming...

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Literature Corpus work: 532fc1c6-ea6b-5538-aece-7daf3c5136d3
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-9336754/v1

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