Eggs, being a trophic level above plants, are still sources of increased biomagnification of environmental pollutants. (nutritionfacts.org)
Because these chemicals don't easily break down, animals that eat animals laced with these toxins end up with ever - higher levels of them — a process known as biomagnification. (sciencenews.org)
The unsolved mystery resurfaced in the PNAS cyanobacteria bloom study, which provides the first evidence for BMAA biomagnification in an aquatic food chain. (scientificamerican.com)