Challenging the Metallothionein (MT) Gene of Biomphalaria glabrata: Unexpected Response Patterns Due to Cadmium Exposure and Temperature Stress

Cadmium in vivo exposure alters stress response and endocrine-related genes in the freshwater snail Physa acuta . New biomarker genes in a new model organism

(2017) Pedro Martínez-Paz et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Biomphalaria glabrata Metallothionein: Lacking Metal Specificity of the Protein and Missing Gene Upregulation Suggest Metal Sequestration by Exchange Instead of through Selective Binding

(2017) Michael Niederwanger et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES

Successive Onset of Molecular, Cellular and Tissue-Specific Responses in Midgut Gland of Littorina littorea Exposed to Sub-Lethal Cadmium Concentrations

(2017) Denis Benito et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES

Whole genome analysis of a schistosomiasis-transmitting freshwater snail

(2017) Coen M. Adema et al.   Nature Communications

Phylogenetic Analysis of Molluscan Metallothioneins: Evolutionary Insight from Crassostrea virginica

(2016) Matthew J. Jenny et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

Physiological, Diurnal and Stress-Related Variability of Cadmium-Metallothionein Gene Expression in Land Snails

(2016) Veronika Pedrini-Martha et al.   PLoS One

Sub-lethal cadmium exposure increases phytochelatin concentrations in the aquatic snail Lymnaea stagnalis

(2016) Gonçalves SF et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Differential sensitivity of snail embryos to cadmium: relation to age and metallothionein gene expression

(2015) Pierre-Emmanuel Baurand et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH

Implications of water hardness in ecotoxicological assessments for water quality regulatory purposes: a case study with the aquatic snail Biomphalaria glabrata (Say, 1818)

(2014) EC Oliveira-Filho et al.   BRAZILIAN JOURNAL OF BIOLOGY

The global burden of neglected tropical diseases

(2012) A. Fenwick   PUBLIC HEALTH

Shaping mechanisms of metal specificity in a family of metazoan metallothioneins: evolutionary differentiation of mollusc metallothioneins

(2011) Òscar Palacios et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Metallothionein protein evolution: a miniassay

(2011) Mercè Capdevila et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Adaptive responses and latent costs of multigeneration cadmium exposure in parasite resistant and susceptible strains of a freshwater snail

(2010) Christopher J. Salice et al.   ECOTOXICOLOGY

Structural and bioinformatic analysis of the Roman snail Cd-Metallothionein gene uncovers molecular adaptation towards plasticity in coping with multifarious environmental stress

(2009) MARGIT EGG et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

High net calcium uptake explains the hypersensitivity of the freshwater pulmonate snail, Lymnaea stagnalis, to chronic lead exposure

(2008) Martin Grosell et al.   AQUATIC TOXICOLOGY

METAL DISTRIBUTION AND METALLOTHIONEIN INDUCTION AFTER CADMIUM EXPOSURE IN THE TERRESTRIAL SNAIL HELIX ASPERSA (GASTROPODA, PULMONATA)

(2008) Florian Hispard et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY

Metallothionein Induction by Hypoxia Involves Cooperative Interactions between Metal-Responsive Transcription Factor-1 and Hypoxia-Inducible Transcription Factor-1 

(2008) B. J. Murphy et al.   MOLECULAR CANCER RESEARCH