Short Communication: Mollusks biodiversity of Lake Sevan, Armenia

Ecosystems of Lake Sevan Basin-s Rivers in Armenia

Taking into account the importance of Lake Sevan and Lake Sevan basin’s rivers for Armenian economy, the main goals of our investigations were the documentation of water quality and the biodiversity of invertebrates developed in Lake Sevan basin’s rivers and selected tributaries. Moderately satisfied ecological condition for the biodiversity of Lake Sevan basin’s rivers has been established, an...

Assessment of mutagenicity of water from Lake Sevan, Armenia with application of Tradescantia (clone 02).

For many decades water resources in Armenia have been affected by anthropogenic activity, therefore, a regular bioindication of genotoxic effects of the water bodies is desirable. The genotoxicity of water samples collected from different parts of Lake Sevan were assessed by means of Trad-SHM (stamen hair mutation) assay using Tradescantia (clone 02). Here we report a significant increase in th...

Studies on heavy metal accumulation in aquatic macrophytes from Sevan (Armenia) and Carambolim (India) lake systems.

Aquatic macrophytes are unchangeable biological filters and they carry out purification of the water bodies by accumulating dissolved metals and toxins in their tissue. In view of their potential to entrap several toxic heavy metals, 45 macrophytes belonging to 8 families collected from two different physiographic locations (36 from Sevan Lake, Armenia; 9 from Carambolim Lake, Old Goa, India) w...

Short Communication: Ichthyotoxism in Capoeta capoeta gracilis (Keyserling, 1861) from west of Urmia ( Marmisho Lake), Iran

Short Communication: Ichthyotoxism in Capoeta capoeta gracilis (Keyserling, 1861) from west of Urmia ( Marmisho Lake), Iran