Biotic indices have become key assessment tools in most recent national and trans-national
policies aimed at improving the quality of coastal waters and the integrity of their associated …

The potential prognostic use of lysosomal reactions to environmental pollutants is explored
in relation to predicting animal health in marine mussels, based on diagnostic biomarker …

Understanding how biomarkers relate to each other on exposure to particular contaminants
in different species is key to their widespread application in environmental management …

The inhibition of light emitted by the bioluminescent bacterium, Vibrio fischeri, is the basis for
several toxicity bioassays. The inhibitory effects of 81 chemicals, after 5min contact time …

To answer the requirement of the European Commission's Water Framework Directive
(WFD) for biological-effects endpoints to classify the ecological health of aquatic …

Incorporation of ecologically relevant biomarkers into routine environmental management
programs has been advocated as a pragmatic means of linking environmental degradation …

RAMP embraces the integrated use of methods for the rapid measurement, assessment and
access to information on the nature, sources and influences of coastal environmental …

Biomarkers on sentinel organisms are utilised worldwide in biomonitoring programs.
However, the lack of effective interpretational capacity has hampered their uptake for use for …

Acetylcholinesterase (AChE) activity is a well established biomarker to monitor
environmental pollution caused by neurotoxic compounds, such as organophosphorus and …

In order to assess the biological effects of the Prestige oil spill (POS), mussels, Mytilus
galloprovincialis, were collected in 22 localities along the North coast of the Iberian …