Consumption of seafoods containing radioactive elements is one of the main sources of natural radiation exposure. Therefore many countries and international organizations are concern about the safe consumption of marine food species. The present study investigated the accumulation pattern of Po-210 in marine cockle (Anadara granosa) collected from a cola burning power plant area. The study reve...

Parasites with complex life cycles, relying on trophic transmission to a definitive host, very often induce changes in the behaviour or appearance of their intermediate hosts. Because this usually makes the intermediate host vulnerable to predation by the definitive host, it is generally assumed that the parasite's transmission rate is increased, and that the modification of the host is, theref...

Short-term oxygen consumption and filtration rate experiments were conducted to evaluate the response of edible cockle Cerastoderma edule when infested by the Digenean trematod Labratrema minimus. In this experiment the metabolic activities of bivalves were measured to detennine this particular aspect of the host-parasite interaction. We have used the Bucephalidae digenea Labratrema minimus inf...

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...

Disseminated neoplasia (DN) has been detected in cockles from various beds in Galicia (NW Spain). A study was performed to characterise cockle neoplastic cell ultrastructure and to evaluate the effect of this disease at different severity stages on various haemolymph cell parameters. Examination of cockle neoplastic cells with transmission electron microscopy (TEM) showed round shapes and a lac...