Plastic is undoubtedly the most useful and versatile polymeric material that man has
developed in the last two centuries Despite the societal benefits, plastic is now a serious …

Ocean acidification has become a major ecological and environmental problem in the world,
whereas the impact mechanism of ocean acidification in marine bivalves is not fully …

A biomonitoring approach based on a single model species cannot be representative of the
contaminations impacts on the ecosystem overall. As part of the Interreg DIADeM program …

Background Several biomarkers developed from freshwater sentinel species are used to
complement chemical assessment of freshwater ecosystems and improve the evaluation of …

Metabolomics is increasingly recognized as a useful approach to characterize
environmental pollution gradients. While the performance of analytical procedures must be …

Abstract The Integrated Biomarker Response (IBR) is one of the most used index in
biomonitoring, especially the IBRv2 integrating a reference condition. However, some …

The complex mixtures of contaminants released in wastewater treatment plant (WWTP)
effluents are a major source of pollution for aquatic ecosystems. The present work aimed to …

Bivalves serve as an ideal ecological indicator; hence, their use by the NOAA Mussel Watch
Program to monitor environmental health. This study aimed to expand the baseline …

The outbreak of Bacterial blight (BB) caused by Xanthomonas oryzae (Xoo) generates
substantial economic losses to agricultural production. Antibiotics application is a valuable …

Molluscan metabolomic analysis is essential for the understanding of the regulatory
mechanism of aquatic invertebrate in response to hepatotoxic microcystins (MCs) stress. To …