Microbial Diseases of Bivalve Mollusks: Infections, Immunology and Antimicrobial Defense [PDF]
Marine Drugs, 2017 A variety of bivalve mollusks (phylum Mollusca, class Bivalvia) constitute a prominent commodity in fisheries and aquacultures, but are also crucial in order to preserve our ecosystem’s complexity and function.
Carla Zannella +2 more
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Towards Risk Assessments of Microplastics in Bivalve Mollusks Globally
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2022 The ubiquitous presence of microplastics in bivalve mollusks and related risks have raised particular concerns. In this study, the available data on the abundance and polymer type of microplastics in bivalves from twenty-two countries were extracted to ...
Ding Jinfeng +2 more
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Environmental Pollution, 2020 The exposure risk of metal-based nanoparticles (NPs) to marine organisms and related food safety have attracted increasing attention, but the actual concentrations of these NPs in seawater and marine organisms are unknown.
Zhenyu Wang, Jian Zhao, Baoshan Xing
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Marine Mollusks: Food with Benefits
Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety, 2019 The extremely vast biodiversity represented by marine mollusks alongside their widespread utility as a source of food and their high nutritional value has aroused great interest from the scientific community.
Bilal Muhammad Khan
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Detection of Rat Lungworms in Invasive Mollusks, Georgia, USA, 2024 [PDF]
Emerging Infectious DiseasesThe rat lungworm, Angiostrongylus cantonensis, is an invasive, zoonotic parasite that can cause severe disease in humans. We collected A. cantonensis larvae from 2 host species, invasive apple and mystery snails, from bodies of water in Georgia, USA ...
Tyler J. Achatz +7 more
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Assessing the sentinel capacity of mollusks, seawater and sediments for monitoring antimicrobial resistance in the marine environment [PDF]
Frontiers in Veterinary ScienceIntroductionAlthough it is widely recognized that aquaculture activity is particularly relevant to the development and spread of AMR in the aquatic environment, national action plans against AMR typically do not include the marine environment among the ...
Gabriel Arriagada +6 more
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Metazoan parasites associated with marine mollusks inhabiting the China Seas: a review [PDF]
Frontiers in Marine ScienceParasites in mollusks are often neglected by humans, while some species were reported to be harmful to economic mollusks and caused production decrease.
Xin Du +11 more
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Whole Genome Analyses of the Endangered Northern Abalone (Haliotis kamtschatkana) Reveal Population Differentiation and a Genomic Signature of a Dramatic Population Decline [PDF]
Evolutionary ApplicationsDespite widespread declines of many wildlife species, the effects of population decline on the genome and the recovery potential of affected species are still poorly understood, especially beyond a few charismatic species.
Anna Tigano +8 more
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Cholesterol and sterols in molluscan endocrinology: past, present, future [PDF]
Frontiers in EndocrinologyRecently, critical evaluations have challenged the presence of vertebrate-type sex steroid signaling in mollusks, underlying the need of new research lines to shed light on molluscan endocrinology.
István Fodor +6 more
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β‐Chitin and chitosan from waste shells of edible mollusks as a functional ingredient
Food Frontiers, 2023 The marine food‐processing industries were producing large quantities of shell wastes as a discard. Currently, this waste material was underutilized and leads to the landfill as a significant environmental issue.
Durairaj Karthick Rajan +7 more
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