It is a difficult task to describe what constitutes a 'healthy'shellfish (eg, crustacean, bivalve).
Visible defects such as discolouration, missing limbs or spines, fouling, lesions, and …

Bivalves are carriers of toxins produced by harmful algal blooms (HAB) species and were
initially thought to be relatively unaffected. However, in recent years, increasing evidence …

The extraordinary progress experienced by sequencing technologies and bioinformatics has
made the development of omic studies virtually ubiquitous in all fields of life sciences …

The polyether toxin, okadaic acid, causes diarrhetic shellfish poisoning in humans. Despite
extensive research into its cellular targets using rodent models, we know little about its …

Environmental epigenetics investigates the cause-effect relationships between specific
environmental factors and the subsequent epigenetic modifications triggering adaptive …

Aiming at an integrated and mechanistic view of the early biological effects of selected
metals in the marine sentinel organism Mytilus galloprovincialis, we exposed mussels for 48 …

Abstract Background The Mediterranean mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis is marine bivalve
with a relevant commercial importance as well as a key sentinel organism for the …

Okadaic acid (OA) is a biotoxin from marine microalgae and widely present in shellfish,
which severely affects the seafood safety. Therefore, it is essential to establish a highly …

Diarrhetic shellfish toxins (DSTs) are among the most prevalent marine toxins in Europe's
and in other temperate coastal regions. These toxins are produced by several dinoflagellate …

In the current study, we compared protein profiles in gills of Perna viridis after exposure to
Prorocentrum lima, a dinoflagellate producing DSP toxins, and identified the differential …