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Carotenoid content and tolerance of green mussel <i>Perna viridis</i> (Linnaeus) to acute mercury and zinc toxicity

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Title Carotenoid content and tolerance of green mussel Perna viridis (Linnaeus) to acute mercury and zinc toxicity
 
Creator Krishnakumar, P K
Damodaran, R
Nambisan, P N K
 
Description 155-157
Mussels with high carotenoid concentration tolerated acute Hg and Zn toxicity and the increase in carotenoid concentration was correlated significantly (P < 0.001) with heavy metal concentration. Exposure to 0.8 ppm of Hg and 6 ppm of Zn resulted in 5 to 6 fold increase in the carotenoid concentration of P. viridis. Drastic depression in oxygen consumption occurred in P. viridis exposed to Hg, coinciding with increase in carotenoid concentration with increase in time of exposure.
 
Date 2016-12-13T06:42:26Z
2016-12-13T06:42:26Z
1987-09
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-1033 (Online); 0379-5136 (Print)
http://nopr.niscair.res.in/handle/123456789/38511
 
Language en_US
 
Rights CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India
 
Publisher NISCAIR-CSIR, India
 
Source IJMS Vol.16(3) [September 1987]