BACKGROUND Po²¹⁰ can be accumulated in various environmental materials, including marine organisms, and contributes to the dose of natural radiation in seafood. The concentration of this radionuclide in the marine environment can be influenced by the operation of a coal burning power plant but existing studies regarding this issue are not well documented. Therefore, the aim of this study was to...

Abstract Objectives This study presents a method combining one-class classifier and laser-induced breakdown spectrometry (LIBS) to quickly identify healthy Tegillarca granosa (T. granosa). Materials Methods The sum of ranking differences (SRD) was used fuse multiple anomaly detection metrics build the classifier, which only trained with T. granosa. can exclude non-healthy proposed calculated st...

Blood cells are key component of organism for their survival and has profound role in defence mechanism of invertebrates similarly in bivalve species, the key role is healing wound and nutrients transportation. The Anadara antiquata is unique because of haemoglobin in their haemolymph and it is commonly found in Pakistani coast.  Present investigation revealed three types of Blood cells, namel...

Methanol extracts of whole body (Melampus ceylonicus), blood (Anadara rhombea) and hepatopancreas (Sepiella inermis) were screened for antifungal and cytotoxic activity. Blood of A. rhombea and hepatopancreas of S. inermis strongly inhibited Candida albicans, Mucor racemosus and Penicillium expansum. A. rhombea appear to exert strong cytotoxic activity against vertebrate erythrocytes. The bacte...

Dinoflagellates belonging to the Perkinsus genus are OIE (World Organization for animal Health)-listed pathogens extremely virulent clams and oysters in many marine ecosystems throughout world. During monitoring activities of Mediterranean mussel ( Mytilus galloprovincialis ) Campania region (Italy), presence typical trophozoites sp. was observed mussels from farms natural banks. Simultaneously...

Bivalve such as blood cockle ( Tegillarca granosa ) feeds by filtering the suspended particle in water including heavy metals and eventually accumulate fleshes. contaminated with might be consumed human which later could have been exposed to toxicity. Therefore, this study was conducted investigate effectiveness of adsorption process towards removal lead (Pb), cadmium (Cd), arsenic (As) ions fr...

An extensive study on Se accumulation in a population of Anadara trapezia from a marine lake is reported. The effects of organism mass, gender, reproductive cycle, and season on Se accumulation and tissue distribution were investigated. Analyses showed that gender and reproductive cycle had no significant effect on Se accumulation. A. trapezia showed a strong positive correlation between Se bur...