| pathology of the liver, kidney and gonad of flounder (platichthys flesus) from a uk estuary impacted by endocrine disrupting chemicals. | the mersey estuary is highly contaminated with xenobiotics compared to the nearby dee estuary. male flounder, a migratory flatfish caught in the mersey frequently contains high blood concentrations of the oestrogen controlled, female protein vitellogenin, suggesting that mersey flounder have been exposed to endocrine disrupting contaminants. males caught from the dee contain lower blood vitellogenin levels. preliminary histopathological examination of 410 flounder from both estuaries, focuses on ... | 2000 | 11460705 |
| genetic analysis of infectious pancreatic necrosis virus from scotland. | infectious pancreatic necrosis (ipn) is a highly contagious disease of young salmonid fish, and is one of the most serious economic diseases in aquaculture. in scotland, an increase in ipn virus (ipnv) outbreaks in seawater atlantic salmon, salmo salar, has been reported in recent years. the aim of this study was to analyse the vp2 gene from recent ipnv isolates from scotland, to determine whether there are epidemiological links between ipnv isolates from farms (13), wild fish (17) and the envir ... | 2008 | 18086033 |
| ecological meltdown in the firth of clyde, scotland: two centuries of change in a coastal marine ecosystem. | the firth of clyde is a large inlet of the sea that extends over 100 km into scotland's west coast. | 2010 | 20686614 |