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The Integrated Response of Biomarkers in the Assessment of the Quality of the Marine Environment Based on the Example of the Bivalve Mollusk Mytilus trossulus (Gould, 1850)

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The possibility of using a battery of biomarkers, that is, the lysosomal membrane stability (LMS), the genetic damage index (GDI), the activities of catalase (CAT) and glutathione-S-transferase (GSТ), the level of malondialdehyde (MDA), and the condition index (CI), was tested for the assessment of pollution in the marine environment. These characters were used to calculate an index reflecting the integrated biomarker response (IBR). The obtained index confirmed the known degree of marine pollution, which increases in the series Vostok Bay < Kozmina Bay < Golden Horn Bay.

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The research was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project no. 19-35-90015) and partly by the State assignment for research work of V.I. Il’ichev Pacific Oceanological Institute, FEB RAS (no. 121-21500052-9).

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    A. A. Istomina, A. A. Mazur, V. P. Chelomin, S. P. Kukla, V. V. Slobodskova, Y. V. Fedorets, O. A. Yelovskaya & L. F. Kolosova

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Istomina, A.A., Mazur, A.A., Chelomin, V.P. et al. The Integrated Response of Biomarkers in the Assessment of the Quality of the Marine Environment Based on the Example of the Bivalve Mollusk Mytilus trossulus (Gould, 1850). Russ J Mar Biol 47, 185–192 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063074021030068

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