Use of Aquatic Invertebrates as Tools for Monitoring of Environmental Hazards: Symposium 2./3. November 1993

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Werner E. G. Müller
Gustav Fischer Verlag, 1994 - Aquatic invertebrates - 288 pages
"The symposium "Marine Organisms as Tools for the Assessment of Pollution and as Source for Bioactive Compounds" (Mainz, November 2./3., 1993) presented a synopsis of new approaches to monitor environmental hazards using a variety of animals as indicator systems" -- Cover.

Contents

Grußwort
7
Alkaline elution of mussel DNA as a tool
35
Introduced techniques to evaluate genotoxicity
49
A novel method for the detection of DNA fragmen
63
Interaction of the nuclear lectins CBP35 and CBP67
85
Impact of pollution on DNA fragmentation
109
Measurement of water pollutants with multixeno
129
Increased genotoxicity of aminoanthracene
149
Organotininduced apoptosis is modulated
165
Identification of cytotoxic and genotoxic poten
179
Tyrosine kinase from the marine sponge Geodia
201
Cloning of the stress gene polyubiquitin from
225
Secondary metabolites from sponges
243
Immunocompetence of marine invertebrates as a tool
265
Ingestion and digestion in freshwater sponges
283
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