Deepulal, P M; Dr.Sujatha, C H(Cochin University Of Science And Technology, January , 2013)
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Abstract:
The pollutants discharged into the estuaries are originate from two
main sources-industrial and sewage. The former may be toxic which
includes heavy metals, residues from antifouling paint particles and
pesticides, while large discharges of sewage will contain pathogenic microorganisms.
The contamination is enough to destroy the amenities of the
waterfront, and the toxic substances may completely destroy the marine life
and damage to birds, fishes and other marine organisms. Antifouling
biocides are a type of chemical used in marine structure to prevent
biofouling. These antifouling biocides gradually leach from the ships and
other marine structures into water and finally settled in sediments. Once a
saturation adsorption is reached they desorbed into overlying water and
causes threat to marine organisms. Previous reports explained the imposex
and shell thickening in bivalves owing to the effect of biocides. So bivalves are used as indicator organisms to understand the status of pollution. The
nervous system is one of the best body part to understand the effect of
toxicant. Acetylcholine esterase enzyme which is the main neurotransmitter
in nervous was used to understand the effect of pollutants. Present study
uses Acetylcholine esterase enzyme as pollution monitoring indicator
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Department of Chemical Oceanography
School of Marine Sciences
Cochin University of Science and Technology
Miriam,Paul; Dr.Ravindranatha Menon,N(Cochin University Of Science And Technology, June 5, 2001)
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Abstract:
The present investigation has addressed the eflects of PHC
contaminated culture medium on the morphology, physiology and
behaviour of shrimps] The shrimp Metapenaeus dobsoni is an important
member of the crustacean animal community abounding the oil
contaminated benthic regions of Cochin backwater system. Since it is
known that true pollutants can disrupt the sustainability of ecosystems by
its eflect on species, populations and communities, a representative
species was used for the study. The results discussed in this work is bound
to help in understanding the ecotoxicant resistance that the animal may
display under toxic conditions compared to aynamic steaay-state systems
in nature
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School of Marine Sciences, Cochin
University of Science and Technology