The malacological analysis of the Cañada Honda shell midden (Tinto-Odiel estuary, SW Spain) has allowed an approximation palaeo biodiversity this sector during Mesolithic. During period, progressive marine transgression caused flooding coinciding with initial intensive capture bivalves Lutraria and Ruditapes decussatus in northern southern site, respectively. In a second phase, was main collect...

The digenean trematode Diphtherostomum brusinae (Stossich, 1888) Stossich, 1903 presents a complex life cycle that may involve more than one intermediate host. The present study represents the first description of the metacercariae from D. brusinae infecting the labial palps of a new intermediate host, Mytilus galloprovincialis, in the Aveiro estuary, Portugal. The morphology of this parasitic ...

In the Bay of Saint-Brieuc, a 3110 ha tidal bay in NW France, English channel, the cockle (Cerastoderma edule) has been collected by traditional fishing methods for many decades without any evaluation or management of this resource taking place. Since 2001, the national Natural Reserve of the bay of Saint-Brieuc has carried out an evaluation of the stock and a mapping of the cockle fishing grou...

Despite the increasing availability of new classes of cancer treatment, such as immune- and targeted therapies, there remains a need for the development of new antiproliferative/cytotoxic drugs with improved pharmacological profiles that can also overcome drug resistant forms of cancer. In this study, we have identified, and characterised, a novel marine polysaccharide with the potential to be ...