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  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,888 Views
16 Pages

Benzodiazepine Interference with Fertility and Embryo Development: A Preliminary Survey in the Sea Urchin Paracentrotus lividus

  • Chiara Fogliano,
  • Rosa Carotenuto,
  • Paola Cirino,
  • Raffaele Panzuto and ,
  • Martina Ciaravolo,
  • Palma Simoniello,
  • Ilaria Sgariglia,
  • Chiara Maria Motta and
  • Bice Avallone
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

6 February 2024

Psychotropic drugs and benzodiazepines are nowadays among the primary substances of abuse. This results in a large and constant release into aquatic environments where they have potentially harmful effects on non-target organisms and, eventually, hum...

(This article belongs to the Section Molecular Toxicology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,577 Views
19 Pages

Spinochrome Identification and Quantification in Pacific Sea Urchin Shells, Coelomic Fluid and Eggs Using HPLC-DAD-MS

  • Elena A. Vasileva,
  • Natalia P. Mishchenko,
  • Van T. T. Tran,
  • Hieu M. N. Vo and
  • Sergey A. Fedoreyev

6 January 2021

The high-performance liquid chromatography method coupled with diode array and mass spectrometric detector (HPLC-DAD-MS) method for quinonoid pigment identification and quantification in sea urchin samples was developed and validated. The composition...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quinonoid Pigments of Echinoderms)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,207 Views
18 Pages

Formulated Diets Drive Gonadal Maturity but Reduce Larval Success in Paracentrotus lividus

  • Bruno Pinto,
  • Maissa Gharbi,
  • Serena Federico,
  • Francesca Glaviano and ,
  • Enea Tentoni,
  • Tania Russo,
  • Anna Di Cosmo,
  • Gianluca Polese,
  • Maria Costantini and
  • Valerio Zupo
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

Over the past few decades, demand for sea urchin roe has risen, while wild sea urchin populations have declined. This trend has increased interest in aquaculture techniques and the development of formulated feeds to support ecological restoration and...

(This article belongs to the Section Marine Ecology)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,672 Views
12 Pages

Differential Toxicity of Cyanobacteria Isolated from Marine Sponges towards Echinoderms and Crustaceans

  • Ana Regueiras,
  • Sandra Pereira,
  • Maria Sofia Costa and
  • Vitor Vasconcelos

18 July 2018

Marine sponges and cyanobacteria have a long history of co-evolution, with documented genome adaptations in cyanobionts. Both organisms are known to produce a wide variety of natural compounds, with only scarce information about novel natural compoun...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cyanobacteria and Cyanotoxins: New Advances and Future Challenges)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,081 Views
19 Pages

Fungal Communities in Soils Contaminated with Persistent Organic Pollutants: Adaptation and Potential for Mycoremediation

  • Lazaro Alexis Pedroso Guzman,
  • Lukáš Mach,
  • Jiřina Marešová,
  • Jan Wipler and ,
  • Petr Doležal,
  • Jiřina Száková and
  • Pavel Tlustoš
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

4 August 2025

The main objective of this study was to select indigenous fungal species suitable for the potential mycoremediation of the soils polluted by organic pollutants. As a sampling area, Litvínov City (North Bohemia, Czech Republic) was selected. Th...

(This article belongs to the Section Ecology Science and Engineering)