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SUBMITTER: Nicosia A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4326271 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nicosia Aldo A Nicosia Aldo A Salamone Monica M Mazzola Salvatore S Cuttitta Angela A
BioMed research international 20150129
Due to anthropogenic activities the relative concentrations of cadmium and manganese have increased in the marine environment. Cephalopods are able to accumulate such metals and, as inhabitant of coastal waters, Octopus vulgaris is continuously exposed to anthropogenic activities. Since no study is available on the effects of heavy metals at molecular level in developing octopuses, herein we exposed 1-day-old paralarvae for 24 h to 10, 100, and 1000 μg/L of CdCl2 or MnCl2. Cd exerted a concentra ...[more]