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Long-term investigation of heavy metal variations in mollusks along the Chinese Bohai Sea.

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 2022
Biomonitoring is an effective way to assess the effects of pollutants on marine ecosystems. As an important fishing region in China, the Chinese Bohai Sea has been contaminated with heavy metals, posing great risks to seafood safety and human health ...
Lufeng Chen, X. Cai, Mengxi Cao, Hong-wei Liu, Yong Liang, Li-gang Hu, Yong-guang Yin, Yanbin Li, Jianbo Shi   +8 more
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Soluble mediators of innate immunity in annelids and bivalve mollusks: A mini-review

Frontiers in Immunology, 2022
Annelids and mollusks, both in the superphylum of Lophotrochozoa (Bilateria), are important ecological groups, widespread in soil, freshwater, estuarine, and marine ecosystems.
L. Canesi, M. Auguste, T. Balbi, P. Procházková   +3 more
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A Commentary on the Use of Bivalve Mollusks in Monitoring Metal Pollution Levels

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021
The objective of this commentary is to promote the use of bivalves as biomonitors, which is a part of the continual efforts of the International Mussel Watch.
C. Yap, M. Sharifinia, W. Cheng, S. Al-Shami, Koe Wei Wong, K. Al-Mutairi   +5 more
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E Pluribus Octo – Building Consensus on Standards of Care and Experimentation in Cephalopod Research; a Historical Outlook

Frontiers in Physiology, 2020
The Directive 2010/63/EU “on the protection of animals used for scientific purposes” originally induced some concern among cephalopod researchers, because of the inclusion of cephalopod mollusks as the only invertebrates among the protected species. Here
Fabio De Sio, Frederike D. Hanke, Kerstin Warnke, Chantal Marazia, Viola Galligioni, Viola Galligioni, Graziano Fiorito, Graziano Fiorito, Ioanna Stravidou, Ioanna Stravidou, Giovanna Ponte, Giovanna Ponte   +11 more
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The Irkutsk focus of opisthorchosis (to the 40th Anniversary of the discovery)

Российский паразитологический журнал, 2023
The purpose of the research is to summarize our own and literature data on the Irkutsk focus of opisthorchosis.Materials and methods. The materials (mollusks, cyprinids and muskrat) were collected in the reservoirs of the Biryusa River basin.
O. T. Rusinek, S. P. Veprikov
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Effects of Short-Term Salinity Stress on Ions, Free Amino Acids, Na⁺/K⁺-ATPase Activity, and Gill Histology in the Threatened Freshwater Shellfish Solenaia oleivora

Fishes, 2022
Salinity is an important ecological factor affecting the osmolality of aquatic animals. Solenaia oleivora is an endemic and economically important freshwater shellfish in China.
Ting Zhang, Jingting Yao, Dongpo Xu, Guohua Lv, Haibo Wen   +4 more
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Factors Controlling the Distribution of Intermediate Host Snails of Schistosoma in Crater Lakes in Uganda: A Machine Learning Approach

Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2022
Schistosomiasis affects over 700 million people globally. 90% of the infected live in sub-Saharan Africa, where the trematode species Schistosoma mansoni and S.
Zadoki Tabo, Zadoki Tabo, Thomas A. Neubauer, Thomas A. Neubauer, Immaculate Tumwebaze, Björn Stelbrink, Lutz Breuer, Lutz Breuer, Cyril Hammoud, Cyril Hammoud, Christian Albrecht   +10 more
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The Tricky Task of Fisher-Gardener Research in Conservation Paleobiology

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022
The study of sambaquis (ancient shell mounds) in conservation paleobiology is a complicated subject, especially when comparing body sizes of current and past mollusk valves to observe possible changes. There is a lack of information regarding how ancient
Anna Clara Arboitte de Assumpção, Felipe Caron, Fernando Erthal, Fernando Erthal, Eduardo Guimarães Barboza, Eduardo Guimarães Barboza, Raphael Mathias Pinotti, Matias do Nascimento Ritter, Matias do Nascimento Ritter   +8 more
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Element Contents in Three Commercially Important Edible Mollusks Harvested off the Southwestern Coast of Crimea (Black Sea) and Assessment of Human Health Risks from Their Consumption

Foods, 2021
Mollusks are a prospective food for the world’s growing population, but the contents of toxic and essential trace elements in them have not been studied comprehensively. In this work, using inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry, the contents of 72
S. Kapranov, N. V. Karavantseva, N. Bobko, V. Ryabushko, L. L. Kapranova   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Hydromalacological researches in the Siverskyi Donets River Basin (south of the Eastern European Plain): A review

Біологічні студії, 2022
An analytical review of literature sources is presented, it contains information about the freshwater malacofauna of the basin of the Siverskyi Donets River, the right, largest tributary of the Don River, south of the East European Plain.
S. M. Pisaryev
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