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SUBMITTER: Leite IDP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8402466 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Leite Isabel do Prado IDP Sdiri Khalil K Taylor Angus A Viallon Jérôme J Gharbia Hela Ben HB Mafra Júnior Luiz Laureno LL Swarzenski Peter P Oberhaensli François F Darius Hélène Taiana HT Chinain Mireille M Bottein Marie-Yasmine Dechraoui MD
Toxins 20210811 8
Ciguatera poisoning is a food intoxication associated with the consumption of fish or shellfish contaminated, through trophic transfer, with ciguatoxins (CTXs). In this study, we developed an experimental model to assess the trophic transfer of CTXs from herbivorous parrotfish, <i>Chlorurus microrhinos</i>, to carnivorous lionfish, <i>Pterois volitans</i>. During a 6-week period, juvenile lionfish were fed naturally contaminated parrotfish fillets at a daily dose of 0.11 or 0.035 ng CTX3C equiv. ...[more]