Bivalve omics: State of the art and potential applications for the biomonitoring of harmful marine compounds

Marine Drugs

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 4370-4389

  Suárez Ulloa, Victoria ^a   Fernández Tajes, Juan ^b   Manfrin, Chiara ^c   Gerdol, Marco ^c   Venier, Paola ^d   Eirín López, José M ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; Biomonitoring; Biotoxins; Heavy metals; Marine invertebrates; Omics; PAHs; Pollution

Indexed keywords

HEAVY METAL; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; TOXIN;

AQUACULTURE; BIOINFORMATICS; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BIVALVE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EPIGENETICS; GENOMICS; METABOLOMICS; MOLLUSC; NONHUMAN; PH; POLLUTANT; PROTEOMICS; REVIEW; SALINITY; SEA POLLUTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTOMICS;

ANIMALIA; BIVALVIA; INVERTEBRATA; MOLLUSCA;

ANIMALS; BIVALVIA; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS;

EID: 84889237273     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16603397     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/md11114370     Document Type: Review

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