Metallothionein cDNA cloning, metallothionein expression and heavy metals in Scapharca inaequivalvis along the Northern Adriatic coast of Italy

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 366-372

  Andreani, Giulia ^a   Carpenè, Emilio ^a   Capranico, Giovanni ^a   Isani, Gloria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Metallothionein; Metals; MTcDNA; Northern Adriatic Sea; Pollution monitoring; Scapharca inaequivalvis

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CADMIUM; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; COPPER; HEAVY METAL; MESSENGER RNA; METALLOTHIONEIN; ZINC;

AMINO ACID; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DNA; METALLOTHIONEIN; MOLLUSC; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; POLLUTION MONITORING; RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC CODE; GILL; HEPATOPANCREAS; ITALY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR PROBE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EXTRACTION; SCAPHARCA; SEASHORE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TISSUE SECTION;

ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GILLS; HEPATOPANCREAS; ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; METALLOTHIONEIN; METALS, HEAVY; RNA, MESSENGER; SCAPHARCA; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ADRIATIC SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

MOLLUSCA; SCAPHARCA INAEQUIVALVIS;

EID: 79951945915     PISSN: 01476513     EISSN: 10902414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2010.12.008     Document Type: Article

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