Animal cellulases with a focus on aquatic invertebrates

Aquatic Invertebrates

Animals are important and conspicuous elements inPacifi c Island ecosystems. They are crucial to the fl ow of energy and nutrients within ecosystems and they strongly infl uence, and in some cases control, the species composition and population structure of communities. Determining which animal species are present in an area and what they do is crucial to understanding how ecosystems function a...

Endocrine Disruption in Aquatic Invertebrates

Antimicrobial peptides from animals: focus on invertebrates.

antimicrobial peptides has been isolated from animals and plants during the past two decades. Three novel classes of natural antibiotics (anionic peptides, aromatic dipeptides and processed forms of oxygen-binding proteins) have recently been isolated from different vertebrate and invertebrate species. In this article, we present an overview of natural animal anti-microbials, with an emphasis o...

Focus on animal welfare.

Fluoxetine effects assessment on the life cycle of aquatic invertebrates.

Fluoxetine is a serotonin re-uptake inhibitor, generally used as an antidepressant. It is suspected to provoke substantial effects in the aquatic environment. This study reports the effects of fluoxetine on the life cycle of four invertebrate species, Daphnia magna, Hyalella azteca and the snail Potamopyrgus antipodarum exposed to fluoxetine spiked-water and the midge Chironomus riparius expose...