maitotoxin
Meaning
Noun
- A highly potent toxin produced by Gambierdiscus toxicus (species), a dinoflagellate species.
Related
Similar words
- MTX
Origin
- maito + toxin; named from the ciguateric fish Ctenochaetus striatus (species), called maito in Tahiti, from which maitotoxin was first isolated (though it was later shown that maitotoxin is actually produced by Gambierdiscus toxicus).
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