10-year time course of Hg and organic compounds in Augusta Bay: Bioavailability and biological effects in marine organisms

Mussels drive polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) biomagnification in a coastal food web

(2021) Kimberly D. Prince et al.   Scientific Reports

Organochlorines and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons as fingerprint of exposure pathways from marine sediments to biota

(2021) Anna Traina et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Application of a Multidisciplinary Weight of Evidence Approach as a Tool for Monitoring the Ecological Risk of Dredging Activities

(2021) Giuseppe d'Errico et al.   Frontiers in Marine Science

Biotransformation and oxidative stress responses in relation to tissue contaminant burden in Clarias gariepinus exposed to simulated leachate from a solid waste dumpsite in Calabar, Nigeria

(2020) Oju R. Ibor et al.   CHEMOSPHERE

Environmental Status of Italian Coastal Marine Areas Affected by Long History of Contamination

(2020) Antonella Ausili et al.   Frontiers in Environmental Science

Integrated characterization and risk management of marine sediments: The case study of the industrialized Bagnoli area (Naples, Italy)

(2020) Lorenzo Morroni et al.   MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH

Measuring anthropogenic impacts on an industrialised coastal marine area using chemical and textural signatures in sediments: A case study of Augusta Harbour (Sicily, Italy)

(2020) E. Romano et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Variability of biological indices, biomarkers, and organochlorine contaminants in flounder ( Platichthys flesus ) in the Gulf of Gdańsk, southern Baltic Sea

(2018) Orest Kopko et al.   CHEMOSPHERE

Levels, distribution, and ecological risk of organochlorines in red mullet (Mullus barbatus) and annular sea bream (Diplodus annularis) from the Gulf of Izmir, Eastern Aegean, in 2009–2012

(2018) Lutfi Tolga Gonul et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH

Diet and habitat use influence Hg and Cd transfer to fish and consequent biomagnification in a highly contaminated area: Augusta Bay (Mediterranean Sea)

(2017) Geraldina Signa et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Blue mussels ( Mytilus edulis spp.) as sentinel organisms in coastal pollution monitoring: A review

(2017) Jonny Beyer et al.   MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH

Fluxes and the mass balance of mercury in Augusta Bay (Sicily, southern Italy)

(2016) Daniela Salvagio Manta et al.   ESTUARINE COASTAL AND SHELF SCIENCE

Evolution of the anthropogenic impact in the Augusta Harbor (Eastern Sicily, Italy) in the last decades: benthic foraminifera as indicators of environmental status

(2015) Elena Romano et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH

Monitoring of PCDD/Fs and dioxin-like PCBs and seasonal variations in mussels from the Mar Grande and the Mar Piccolo of Taranto (Ionian Sea, Southern Italy)

(2014) Antonella Di Leo et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH

Pollution biomonitoring in the Bizerte lagoon (Tunisia), using combined chemical and biomarker analyses in grass goby, Zosterisessor ophiocephalus (Teleostei, Gobiidae)

(2014) Badreddine Barhoumi et al.   MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH

Highly contaminated areas as sources of pollution for adjoining ecosystems: The case of Augusta Bay (Central Mediterranean)

(2014) R. Di Leonardo et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Biological responses of juvenile European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) exposed to contaminated sediments

(2013) Elena De Domenico et al.   ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY

Mercury in fishes from Augusta Bay (southern Italy): Risk assessment and health implication

(2013) M. Bonsignore et al.   FOOD AND CHEMICAL TOXICOLOGY

Oxidative pathways of chemical toxicity and oxidative stress biomarkers in marine organisms

(2013) Francesco Regoli et al.   MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH

Sediment characterization of the highly impacted Augusta harbour (Sicily, Italy): modern benthic foraminifera in relation to grain-size and sediment geochemistry

(2013) Elena Romano et al.   Environmental Science-Processes & Impacts

Biochemical and bioaccumulation approaches for investigating marine pollution using Mediterranean rainbow wrasse, Coris julis (Linneaus 1798)

(2012) Barbara Tomasello et al.   ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY

An Integrated Approach to the Assessment of Pollutant Delivery Chronologies to Impacted Areas: Hg in the Augusta Bay (Italy)

(2012) Luca Giorgio Bellucci et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Molecular and biochemical biomarkers in environmental monitoring: A comparison of biotransformation and antioxidant defense systems in multiple tissues

(2011) Francesco Regoli et al.   AQUATIC TOXICOLOGY

Assessing sediment hazard through a weight of evidence approach with bioindicator organisms: A practical model to elaborate data from sediment chemistry, bioavailability, biomarkers and ecotoxicological bioassays

(2011) Francesco Piva et al.   CHEMOSPHERE

Induction of cytochrome P4501A by highly purified hexachlorobenzene in primary cultures of ring-necked pheasant and Japanese quail embryo hepatocytes

(2011) Lukas J. Mundy et al.   COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY C-TOXICOLOGY & PHARMACOLOGY

Micronuclei and other nuclear abnormalities in mussels (Mytilus galloprovincialis) as biomarkers of cyto-genotoxic pollution in mediterranean waters

(2011) Beatriz Fernández et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL AND MOLECULAR MUTAGENESIS

The key role played by the Augusta basin (southern Italy) in the mercury contamination of the Mediterranean Sea

(2011) Mario Sprovieri et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING

Multi-biomarker approach to investigate the state of contamination of the R. Lambro/R. Po confluence (Italy) by zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha)

(2010) A. Binelli et al.   CHEMOSPHERE

Micronucleus assay in aquatic animals

(2010) C. Bolognesi et al.   MUTAGENESIS

Understanding and Managing Human Threats to the Coastal Marine Environment

(2009) Caitlin M. Crain et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Seasonal and inter-annual variability of DNA integrity in mussels Mytilus galloprovincialis: A possible role for natural fluctuations of trace metal concentrations and oxidative biomarkers

(2009) Barbara Pisanelli et al.   CHEMOSPHERE

Mutagenic and genotoxic effects of carbosulfan in freshwater fish Channa punctatus (Bloch) using micronucleus assay and alkaline single-cell gel electrophoresis

(2009) C.D. Nwani et al.   FOOD AND CHEMICAL TOXICOLOGY

Contaminant accumulation and biomarker responses in caged mussels, Mytilus galloprovincialis, to evaluate bioavailability and toxicological effects of remobilized chemicals during dredging and disposal operations in harbour areas

(2008) R BOCCHETTI et al.   AQUATIC TOXICOLOGY

INTERACTIONS BETWEEN TRACE METALS (Cu, Hg, Ni, Pb) AND 2,3,7,8-TETRACHLORODIBENZO-P-DIOXIN IN THE ANTARCTIC FISH TREMATOMUS BERNACCHII: OXIDATIVE EFFECTS ON BIOTRANSFORMATION PATHWAY

(2008) Maura Benedetti et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY

Ecotoxicological and human health risk in a petrochemical district of southern Italy

(2008) Antonella Ausili et al.   MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH

Comparison of Mercury Distribution Between Liver and Muscle – A Biomonitoring of Fish from Lightly and Heavily Contaminated Localities

(2008) Marcela Havelková et al.   SENSORS

An ecotoxicological protocol with caged mussels, Mytilus galloprovincialis, for monitoring the impact of an offshore platform in the Adriatic sea

(2007) Stefania Gorbi et al.   MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH