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The Status of Marine Mussel Pollution Research in South Africa (2012–2022)

open access: yesFoods, 2023
The growing human population requires more food each year, and seafood products can help meet this demand if clean water resources are available for their growth.
Deborah Caitlin Firth   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cation-Exchange Resin Applied to Paralytic Shellfish Toxins Depuration from Bivalves Exposed to Gymnodinium catenatum

open access: yesFoods, 2023
The accumulation of marine biotoxins in shellfish and their consumption causes serious food safety problems, threatening human health and compromising the availability of protein-based food.
Joana F. Leal   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Stabilisation of fluvial bed sediments by invasive quagga mussels (Dreissena bugensis) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
River gravel mobility is an important control on river behaviour, morphology, and ecosystem processes. Gravel stability is dependent on abiotic flow and sediment properties, alongside less widely acknowledged biotic processes.
Mills, D. N.   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Are coastal resources of NW Portugal fingerprinting hydrocarbons released from the Prestige accident?

open access: yesCiencias Marinas, 2003
Seventy-one samples of mussels, sardine, hake, blue whiting and pouting from the NW Portuguese coast, collected between 18 November 2002 and 6 January 2003, were analyzed for total hydrocarbons, individual n-alkanes and major isoprenoids, pristane and ...
AM Ferreira, C Micaelo, C Vale
doaj   +1 more source

Mytilus galloprovincialis-type foot-protein-1 alleles occur at low frequency among mussels in the Dutch Wadden Sea [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
The presence of M. galloprovincialis-type genes among the population of mussels in the Dutch Wadden Sea, historically described as M. edulis, was assessed.
Bol, A   +8 more
core   +1 more source

Geographic variability of the concentration of Hg, Co, Fe and Ni in mussels Mytilus californianus (Conrad, 1837) from the coast of Baja California

open access: yesCiencias Marinas, 2003
The spatial distribution of the Hg, Fe, Co, and Ni pollution was determined in the Northwest coast of Baja California using the mussel Mytilus californianus as biomonitor.
EA Gutiérrez-Galindo, A Muñoz-Barbosa
doaj   +1 more source

Microplastics in Invasive Freshwater Mussels (Dreissena sp.): Spatiotemporal Variation and Occurrence With Chemical Contaminants

open access: yesFrontiers in Marine Science, 2021
Invasive zebra and quagga mussels (Dreissena spp.) in the Great Lakes of North America are biomonitors for chemical contaminants, but are also exposed to microplastics (<5 mm).
Timothy Hoellein   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Occurrence of Vibrio parahaemolyticus and Staphylococcus aureus in seafood

open access: yesItalian Journal of Food Safety, 2021
The objective of this study was to establish the occurrence of Vibrio parahaemolyticus and Staphylococcus aureus in several species of sea fish and mussels (Mytilus galloprovincialis).
Deyan Stratev   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Patella spp. as na alternative to Mytilus spp in marine pollution studies

open access: yesFrontiers in Marine Science, 2014
The most widely used species for marine pollution studies is mussel, Mytilus spp., as it is a filter feeder, sessile, easy to get and present in most worldwide coasts.
Begoña Pérez-Fernández
doaj   +1 more source

Uptake and Retention of Nanoplastics in Quagga Mussels

open access: yesGlobal Challenges, 2020
Here, a set of experiments to assess the feasibility of using an invasive and widespread freshwater mussel (Dreissena rostrformis bugensis) as a sentinel species for nanoplastic detection is reported.
Rachel L. Merzel   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

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