{"id":687,"date":"2015-11-05T14:46:24","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T14:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/debrobertson\/?p=687"},"modified":"2015-11-05T14:47:07","modified_gmt":"2015-11-05T14:47:07","slug":"toxin-taints-crabs-and-kills-sea-mammals-scientists-warn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/debrobertson\/2015\/11\/05\/toxin-taints-crabs-and-kills-sea-mammals-scientists-warn\/","title":{"rendered":"Toxin Taints Crabs and Kills Sea Mammals, Scientists Warn"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Many diatoms in the genus <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Pseudo-nitzschia<\/span><\/strong> produce domoic acid (DA) &#8211; a potent neurotoxin that bioaccumlates in marine food chains. \u00a0Persistent warm temperatures along the Pacific Coast of the US may be contributing to increased growth of\u00a0Pseudo-nitzchia and increased toxin levels in invertebrates. \u00a0High levels of domoic acid create health problems for animals that consume them. \u00a0According to sources quoted in this NY Times article, DA monitoring networks are\u00a0\u00a0&#8220;seeing much higher contamination in the marine food web this year in this huge geographic expanse than in the past,\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/11\/05\/science\/toxin-taints-crabs-and-kills-sea-mammals-scientists-warn.html\">Toxin Taints Crabs and Kills Sea Mammals, Scientists Warn<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many diatoms in the genus Pseudo-nitzschia produce domoic acid (DA) &#8211; a potent neurotoxin that bioaccumlates in marine food chains. \u00a0Persistent warm temperatures along the Pacific Coast of the US may be contributing to increased growth of\u00a0Pseudo-nitzchia and increased toxin &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/debrobertson\/2015\/11\/05\/toxin-taints-crabs-and-kills-sea-mammals-scientists-warn\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Toxin Taints Crabs and Kills Sea Mammals, Scientists Warn<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4352],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/debrobertson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/debrobertson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/debrobertson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/debrobertson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/debrobertson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/debrobertson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/debrobertson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/debrobertson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/debrobertson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}