| prevalence of mytilicola intestinalis (copepoda: mytilicolidae) and urastoma cyprinae (turbellaria: hypotrichinidae) in marketable mussels mytilus galloprovincialis in italy. | marketable mussels mytilus galloprovincialis traded with commercial certification from production sites in italy and abroad (france, spain) were examined for the presence of mytilicola intestinalis (copepoda: mytilicolidae) and urastoma cyprinae (turbellaria: hypotrichinidae) from october 1994 to february 1996. the prevalence of m. intestinalis was 4.1% and 4.7% respectively in mussels from lerici (la spezia) and s. pietro in volta (venice), whereas it rose to 57.9% in the samples from spain. m. ... | 1998 | 9676254 |
| organochlorine compounds and heavy metals in the soft tissue of the mussel mytilus galloprovincialis collected from lake faro (sicily, italy). | three hundred samples of mytilus galloprovincialis were collected from five stations (north, south, east, west and centre) of lake faro to evaluate the concentrations of organochlorine compounds and heavy metals. quantitative determinations of organochlorine pesticides and pcbs were made by gc-ecd and confirmed with gc-ms. concentrations of "essential" (cu, se and zn) and "toxic" (as, cd, hg and pb) metals were determined by an atomic absorption spectrophotometer. the results obtained show the l ... | 2004 | 15120199 |
| ecotoxicological and human health risk in a petrochemical district of southern italy. | an ecotoxicological investigation has been carried in the petrochemical district of priolo (sicily, italy), one of the largest in europe. results indicated a severe mercury contamination in sediments sampled near a chloro-alkali plant. a clear bioavailability of this element was demonstrated in mussels mytilus galloprovincialis (both native and translocated) and the benthic fish mullus barbatus, which also exhibited marked genotoxic damages. the elevated mercury concentrations in marine organism ... | 2008 | 18378299 |