from earlier experiments. Similar results were obtained for the freshwater bivalve Anodonta cygnea (Gade et al., 1975). In this animal, acetate and propionate were responsible for over 75 % of total accumulated end products after 30h of anaerobiosis. As volatile fatty acids can be stored in the animal in esterified form, some of the homogenates obtained in the experiments represented in Table 1...

Cyanobacteria are a potential threat to aquatic ecosystems and human health because of their ability produce cyanotoxins, such as microcystins (MCs). MCs regularly monitored in fresh waters, but rarely estuarine marine waters despite the possibility downstream export. Over period two years, we monthly analyzed intracellular (in phytoplankton) extracellular (dissolved water) at five stations alo...

nowadays, bivalves are used in monitoring levels of heavy metals in aquatic environments. the aim of this study was to investigate bioaccumulation of heavy metals zinc (zn) and chromium (cr) in the internal organs of anodonta cygnea. for this purpose, bivalve specimens were collected from semeskandeh region, sari, and then in laboratory, were exposed to 125 µg l-1 concentrations of each metal f...

This research represents the first attempt in Italy to develop a cage system for adult freshwater mussel stocking, for extensive farming, that was realized from 2003 to 2005 in NW Italy. Two autochthonous species of Italian freshwater mussel were used: Anodonta anatina and Unio mancus. 5133 mussels were collected and successively stocked in floating cages in 5 different sites in a lake. This st...