Jillian M Petersen,
Frank U Zielinski,
Thomas Pape,
Richard Seifert,
Cristina Moraru,
Rudolf Amann,
Stephane Hourdez,
Peter R Girguis,
Scott D Wankel,
Valerie Barbe,
Eric Pelletier,
Dennis Fink,
Christian Borowski,
Wolfgang Bach and
Nicole Dubilier
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We show here that the symbionts of the hydrothermal vent mussel Bathymodiolus from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge use hydrogen to power primary production. In addition, we show that the symbionts of Bathymodiolus mussels from Pacific vents have hupL, the key gene for hydrogen oxidation. Furthermore, the sym...
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PMID: 21833083
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The current study was conducted to evaluate the ability of Egyptian bentonite (EB) and montmorillonite (EM) for the prevention of genotoxicity, histochemical and biochemical changes induced by aflatoxin B(1) (AFB(1)) using the micronucleus (MN) assay, chromosomal aberrations and DNA fragmentation an...
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PMID: 20817254
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The aim of this study was to evaluate the health status of the comparatively tolerant fish Carassius carassius over three seasons in an area characterized by spontaneous human activities. Sites near the springs of a river (site Z) and downstream of a river (site B) in Western Ukraine were selected....
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PMID: 20832861
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Neoheterocotyle robii n. sp. is described from the gills of four female Rhinobatos annulatus Müller & Henle caught as bycatch during routine demersal research trawls off the Southern Cape coast of South Africa. The new species can be distinguished from all other members of Neoheterocotyle Hargis, 1...
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PMID: 20960091
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The pyrometallurgical process of mining for obtaining ferronickel involves a stage of calcinations. At this stage a residue is generated described as a calcination dust of fine black grains. Analysis of this material revealed a significant presence of Fe, around 53,000 ppm and Ni, around 14,000, bey...
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PMID: 20936513
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The alkaline comet assay has been employed for the first time to estimate the basal DNA damage in the digestive gland, gills, kidney and gonads of Octopus vulgaris. Octopuses were captured in two coastal areas adjacent to the cities of Matosinhos (N) and Olhão (S), Portugal. The area of Matosinhos...
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PMID: 20719386
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Our results support a multifactorial etiology for PGI in which 'Ca. P. salmonis', an unidentified epitheliocyst agent, and the microsporidian are contributing causes. No evidence for the involvement of Atlantic salmon paramyxovirus in PGI development was identified in the present study. High water t...
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PMID: 21133320
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This study investigated the ability of the Pacific oyster, Crassostrea gigas, to act as a carrier or reservoir of the protistan Bonamia ostreae. Studies were carried out independently in Ireland and in Spain. Naïve C. gigas were exposed to B. ostreae both in the field and in the laboratory via natu...
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PMID: 20388237
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Macrogyrodactylus spp. from the gills of Clarias gariepinus in Zimbabwe and Kenya, and C. anguillaris in Senegal were identified using haptoral sclerite morphology and by sequencing the nuclear ribosomal DNA internal transcribed spacers (ITS) 1 and 2, partial 18S and the complete 5.8S rRNA gene. A m...
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PMID: 20444301
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Anacanthorus franciscanus sp. n. and Anacanthorus brevicirrus sp. n. (Dactylogyridae) are described from the gills of the matrinchã, Brycon orthotaenia Günther (Characidae), from the Rio São Francisco in Brazil. Anacanthorusfranciscanus most closely resembles Anacanthorus e[egans and A. kruidenie...
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PMID: 20941907
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We studied amoebae associated with nodular gill disease (NGD) outbreaks in rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss (Walbaum) in fish farms in South-Western Germany. Gills of 12 diseased rainbow trout were examined in fresh, by isolation attempts, histologically and using in situ hybridisation (ISH). A tot...
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PMID: 20941906
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The myxozoan parasite Ceratomyxa shasta infects salmonids causing ceratomyxosis, a disease elicited by proliferation of the parasite in the intestine. This parasite is endemic to the Pacific Northwest of North America and salmon and trout strains from endemic river basins show increased resistance t...
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PMID: 20385137
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Gyrocerviceanseris passamaquoddyensis n. gen., n. sp. is described from the gills of silver hake, Merluccius bilinearis , in Passamaquoddy Bay, southwestern New Brunswick, Canada. Diagnostic features include an oval haptor with asymmetrically distributed marginal hooks (3 pairs anterior, 5 pairs pos...
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PMID: 20738197
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Gill 7-ethoxyresorufin O-deethylase (EROD) activity of juvenile Chinook salmon caged in Auke Lake, AK was used as a biomarker of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) exposure. Biomarker measurements in conjunction with a comprehensive sampling program that included grab water and sediment samples,...
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PMID: 20378173
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We set out to quantify the exposure and associated toxicity of chemicals with different physicochemical properties toward a fish gill cell line when different solvents and procedural steps are used to introduce test chemicals to cells. Three chemicals with a range of hydrophobicity and volatility we...
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PMID: 20499932
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Copper sulfate is widely used in aquaculture. Exposure to this compound can be harmful to fish, resulting in oxidative metabolism alterations and gill tissue damage. Pacu, Piaractus mesopotamicus, (wt = 43.4 +/- 3.35 g) were distributed in experimental tanks (n = 10; 180 l) and exposed for 48 h to c...
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PMID: 20213433
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In this study the effects of growth hormone (GH) on silver sea bream branchial heat-shock protein 70 (HSP70) expression was investigated using in-vivo and in-vitro experiments. For in-vivo experiments, sea bream were administered recombinant bream GH or the GH secretagogue hexarelin. Pituitary level...
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PMID: 20467854
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We investigated morphological variation patterns among four populations from the Pacific Ocean and six monogenean species through traditional and geometric morphometric techniques. Unlike the traditional method, the geometric morphometric method yielded a high percentage of individuals correctly cla...
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PMID: 20129065
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Henneguya tunisiensis n. sp., a new myxosporean, is described from the gill-arches of the East Atlantic peacock wrasse Symphodus tinca (L.) collected from off the Kerkennah Islands, Tunisia. It is characterised by the presence of elongate white plasmodia of 1-1.5 x 1.5-2 mm in size. The mature spore...
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PMID: 20437216
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During parasitological research on cichlid fish from the tributaries of the Amazon River around Iquitos, Peru, the following gill monogenoidean species were found: Tucunarella cichlae n. gen. and n. sp. from Cichla monoculus Spix and Agassiz; Gussevia alioides Kritsky, Thatcher, and Boeger, 1986 fro...
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PMID: 20557192
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We examined the influences of the polycultured potential hosts on monogenean seasonality and the possible linkage between the infestations on different species of hosts and host phylogeny. The seasonality of Diplectanum grouperi , the dominant species, on wild versus cultured groupers, Epinephelus s...
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PMID: 20557200
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Early-rearing salmonids in Ontario, Canada government fish hatcheries have been persistently affected by bacterial gill disease (BGD), and outbreaks at these locations have often been associated with high morbidity and mortality. The causative agent of BGD, Flavobacterium branchiophilum, is ubiquito...
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PMID: 20307909
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An exceptionally preserved new ostracod crustacean from the Silurian of Herefordshire, UK, represents only the third fully documented Palaeozoic ostracod with soft-part preservation. Appendages, gills, gut system, lateral compound eyes and even a medial eye with a Bellonci organ are preserved, allow...
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PMID: 20106847
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This is the first direct physiological evidence in support of the ionoregulatory hypothesis, challenging the long-held assumption that teleost gills develop initially for gas exchange. Resting unidirectional sodium (Na(+)) uptake and oxygen (O(2)) uptake across the skin and gills were measured simul...
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PMID: 20071386
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Many diving insects collect a bubble of air from the surface to supply their oxygen requirements while submerged. It has been theorised that these air bubbles may also act as compressible gas gills, as the low oxygen partial pressure P(O(2))within the bubble caused by the insect's respiration create...
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PMID: 19651133
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We tested the hypotheses that phosphorylation of the Na(+)-K(+)-Cl(-) cotransporter (NKCC1) located in the basolateral membrane of the gill plays a role in acute salinity acclimation and that changes in NKCC1 phosphorylation are mediated by a cAMP-protein kinase A (cAMP-PKA) pathway. Using a phospho...
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PMID: 20400641
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We concluded also that atrazine is a potential AHs-disruptor and AHs-related genes in kidney of fish could be used as sensitive molecular biomarkers....
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PMID: 19836090
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Na(+), K(+)-ATPase (NKA) is involved, through its role as a major driving force for electrochemical gradients, in a range of transmembrane transport processes. Maintenance of homeostasis in anadromous salmonids requires modulation of several gill ion secretory proteins as part of the preparatory ada...
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PMID: 20079944
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The life cycle of the Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) involves a period of 1 to 3 years in freshwater followed by migration to the sea where the salmon undergoes rapid growth. In preparation for the marine environment, while still in freshwater, the salmon undergo a transformation from a freshwater dw...
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PMID: 19585168
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These results highlighted the importance of considering the multiplicity of perturbation sources in coastal ecosystems to assess the health status of organisms.
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PMID: 20031177
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Only 5% of elasmobranch species live in freshwater (FW) compared to more than 40% of known teleost species. The factors affecting the poor penetration of elasmobranchs into FW environments are currently unknown, however, an important consideration may be the high urea requirement of many proteins in...
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PMID: 20143234
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We compared the dynamics of H. ictaluri infection in blue catfish, channel catfish, and channel catfish x blue catfish hybrids in continuous long-term (5-7-d) and short-term (24-h) pond challenges. After long-term challenge, 66.2% of the channel catfish and 63.6% of the hybrid catfish developed char...
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PMID: 20575362
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The ecotoxicological impact of highway runoff on brown trout (Salmo trutta L.) was studied in an in situ experiment consisting of four 24 h simulated runoff episodes. Fish were maintained in 5 tanks and exposed to highway runoff from a sedimentation pond close to E6 outside the city of Oslo, Norway....
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PMID: 20445854
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Brett M Macey,
Matthew J Jenny,
Heidi R Williams,
Lindy K Thibodeaux,
Marion Beal,
Jonas S Almeida,
Charles Cunningham,
Annalaura Mancia,
Gregory W Warr,
Erin J Burge,
A Fred Holland,
Paul S Gross,
Sonomi Hikima,
Karen G Burnett,
Louis Burnett and
Robert W Chapman
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We used a combination of linear and artificial neural network (ANN) modelling to detect and explore interactions among low-dose mixtures of these heavy metals and their impacts on fundamental physiological processes in tissues of the Eastern oyster, Crassostrea virginica. Animals were exposed to Cd...
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PMID: 19958840
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These results suggested that under our experimental protocol exists toxic associated to Mexel(R)432 exposures.
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PMID: 20110101
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Nudaciraxine imperium sp. n. (Monogenea: Axinidae) is described from the gills of the needlefish Tylosurus acus imperialis (Rafinesque) caught in the Gulf of Gabès, Tunisia. This new species mainly differs from both previously described species, Nudaciraxine gracilis (Linton, 1940) Price, 1962 from...
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PMID: 20449997
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In this study, a full-length cDNA encoding a prolactin-like protein (PRL-L) was cloned from chicken brain tissues using RT-PCR. This putative PRL-L precursor has 225 amino acids in length and shares 30-35% amino acid sequence identity with prolactin (PRL) of chicken, zebrafish, Xenopus, rat and huma...
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PMID: 19854191
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A total of 78 raw retail fish samples from 30 freshwater and 48 marine fish were examined for the presence of Listeria, Aeromonas, and Vibrio species. The overall incidence of Listeria spp. was 30% in freshwater samples and 10.4% in marine fish samples. Listeria monocytogenes (44.5%) was the most co...
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PMID: 20132688
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The dead fish did not exhibit flared opercula typical of infection with bacterial gill disease (BGD) nor did the remaining fish show obvious signs of respiratory distress. Clinical lesions were limited to the gills of the fish, and were consistent with a proliferative branchitis, including substanti...
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PMID: 20200576
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We cloned the sAC ortholog from the dogfish, a shark that regulates blood A/B by absorbing and secreting protons (H(+)) and HCO(3)(-) at its gills. Similar to mammalian sAC, dogfish soluble adenylyl cyclase (dfsAC) is activated by HCO(3)(-) and can be inhibited by two structurally and mechanisticall...
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PMID: 20018667
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Hitherto data on the morphology of Tetraonchidae and their eggs obtained with scanning electron microscopy (SEM) were absent in the literature. In the present paper results of SEM study of two genera of Tetraonchidae, Tetraonchus and Salmonchus, are given. Fine morphological traits of eggs, larvae,...
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PMID: 20349632
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Influence of copper ions on white blood cells parameters in Carassius auratus gibelio was investigated. Changes in cytogenetic parameters and instability in erythrocytes and epithelial cells of gills were estimated in reply to influence of copper solutions. The frequency of epithelial gill cells at...
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PMID: 20480813
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The influence of phenol exposure history on the rates of phenol accumulation, elimination, and oxygen consumption was examined in the fresh water fish species Cyprinus carpio. Bioaccumulation and elimination of phenol from the kidney and biochemical parameters of liver gill and muscle were determine...
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PMID: 20506685
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We exploited the zebrafish (Danio rerio) gill as a unique vertebrate ion transporting epithelium model to study the time-dependent regulatory networks of gene-expression leading to homeostatic control during zinc supplementation. This organ forms a conduit for zinc uptake whilst exhibiting conservat...
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PMID: 20937081
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Pacific salmon fry were collected in 2001-2002 in the rivers of Southern Sakhalin on the way of their migration to the sea. The comparison of the data on ionic content of chum salmon fry carcass, received in 2002, with those obtained in 2001, has shown that the dispersion of ion concentration values...
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PMID: 20593586
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The in vitro effect of a widely used organophosphorus insecticide, chlorpyrifos (CPP), on the acetylcholinesterase (AChE) activity was studied in vitro. The kinetic constants Km and Vmax and the bimolecular constant k(j) were determined in vitro. The in vitro AChE study indicated that CPP is neuroto...
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PMID: 20469652
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The toxicity and genotoxicity of untreated raw (RWW) and treated wastewaters (TWW) samples from Vilnius wastewater treatment plant was assessed using fish (rainbow trout) at different stages of development. The survival of larvae and fish exposed to RWW in short-term and longterm tests reduced, wher...
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PMID: 20729589
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This study evaluates the potential use of stable zinc isotopes in toxicity studies measuring zinc uptake by the gills of brown trout (Salmo trutta) and rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss). The use of stable isotopes in such studies has several advantages over the use of radioisotopes, including cost...
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PMID: 19836537
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Gill, liver and kidney of Clarias gariepinus were examined histologically after exposure to sublethal concentrations (10.05, 20.10 and 30.15 microg/L) of cypermethrin for 10 days. Histological recovery was also studied by maintaining the pesticide-exposed fish in a fresh water system for an addition...
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PMID: 20088211
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We observed that levels of analyzed parameters increased during growth of the fish....
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PMID: 20228006
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Glutathione S-transferases (GSTs) are a family of multifunctional enzymes involved in cellular detoxification that catalyze the attachment of electrophilic substrates to glutathione. Two classes of GSTs related to the rho and sigma classes of enzymes in Antarctic bivalves have been c...
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PMID: 19651242
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Absonifibula estuarina sp. n. (Diclidophoridae, Absonifibulinae), is described from the gills of juvenile striped weakfish, Cynoscion guatucupa (Cuvier), from the southwestern Atlantic, Argentinean coast. This marine fish migrates to estuarine areas to spawn where exclusively juveniles are found par...
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PMID: 20027461
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The aim of this study was to measure antioxidant enzyme activities as biological indicators of pollution in tissues of two species of fish. Five Clarius gariepinus and three Oreochromis mossambicus were collected from Umguza Dam (polluted dam) whilst seven C. gariepinus and eight O. mossambicus were...
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PMID: 19768358
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This study was conducted to determine environmental and climatic factors associated with Epizootic Ulcerative Syndrome (EUS) in fish in the Zambezi floodplains. EUS is a fish disease that causes economic loses to the fishing industry. Streambed colour in affected water was rusty-, reddish- or yellow...
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PMID: 19565173
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These results emphasize the importance of water quality, feeding rate, fish size and prior mortality on the development of BGD. Significant hatchery and species effects were evident, and future observational research on BGD must account for these factors in their design and analysis....
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PMID: 19560833
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These results suggest that the gills, in addition to the liver, are an important site for the pooling of high levels of POPs at the end of the feeding migration....
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PMID: 19462150
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The acidity of mine water generally makes it toxic to most organisms. The gills, kidneys and livers of Anabas testudineus Bloch fish inhabiting the acidic water (pH 2-4) of an unused lignite mine in Li District, Lamphun Province, Thailand were examined and compared to those of farmed fish. Tissue ab...
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PMID: 19842397
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