Experimental feeding of Hydrilla verticillata colonized by stigonematales cyanobacteria induces vacuolar myelinopathy in painted turtles (Chrysemys picta)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Mercurio, Albert D ^a   Hernandez, Sonia M ^a   Maerz, John C ^a   Yabsley, Michael J ^a   Ellis, Angela E ^a   Coleman, Amanda L ^a   Shelnutt, Leslie M ^a   Fischer, John R ^a   Wilde, Susan B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL FOOD; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BRAIN; CELL VACUOLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CHICKEN; CHRYSEMYS PICTA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; FEEDING; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HYDRILLA VERTICILLATA; MALE; NERVOUS TISSUE; NONHUMAN; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPINAL CORD; STIGONEMATALES CYANOBACTERIUM; TURTLE; VACUOLAR MYELINOPATHY; VEGETATION; ANIMAL; HYDROCHARITACEAE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MYELIN SHEATH; PATHOLOGY;

FRESH WATER;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; CYANOBACTERIA; FRESH WATER; HYDROCHARITACEAE; MYELIN SHEATH; SPINAL CORD; TURTLES; VACUOLES;

EID: 84898888658     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0093295     Document Type: Article

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