Endosulfan, an organochlorine pesticide, is categorized as persistent organic pollutants
(POPs) in the Stockholm Convention and phased out globally. In this review, the distribution …

Growing production and consumption of pharmaceuticals is a global problem. Due to
insufficient data on the concentration and distribution of pharmaceuticals in the marine …

Highlights•Floating MPs were collected along the western coasts of the Central Adriatic
Sea.•MPs were found in all sampling stations showing the highest abundance in open …

Marine mussels, especially Mytilus galloprovincialis, are well-established sentinel species,
being naturally resistant to the exposure to multiple xenobiotics of natural and …

Biomonitoring is an effective way to assess the effects of pollutants on marine ecosystems.
As an important fishing region in China, the Chinese Bohai Sea has been contaminated with …

This study reports, for the first time, the baseline levels for fifteen trace metals in M.
galloprovincialis tissue from around the Mediterranean, Marmara and Black Seas. The …

Simple Summary Mussels accumulate trace elements in their soft tissues to levels several
orders of magnitude higher than in the environment. For this reason, they are regarded as …

The cultivation of the Mediterranean mussel, Mytilus galloprovincialis Lamarck, 1819, has
been tested in an innovative Integrated Multitrophic Aquaculture system (IMTA) in the Mar …

Urban and hospital-sourced pharmaceuticals are continuously discharged into aquatic
environments, threatening biota. To date, their impact as single compounds has been widely …

Bivalves possess important ecological and economic values. They have been extensively
used as bioindicators for both emerging and classical pollutants in the aquatic environment …