Discovery of imposex in the gastropod Cyclope neritea now invading Galicia (north-west Spain)

Authors :: María Quintela
Rodolfo Barreiro
Lucía Couceiro
J.M. Ruiz
Source :: Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 86:1171-1173
Publication Year :: 2006
Publisher :: Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2006.
Abstract: A field survey to re-assess imposex and tributyltin (TBT) bioaccumulation in the gastropod Nassarius reticulatus over Galicia uncovered three populations of the invasive species Cyclope neritea, all showing some advanced imposex. One female was found to carry a mass of aborted egg capsules. The TBT pollution, now decreasing in the area, is the most likely explanation for these reproductive anomalies, and it may bear some relationship to the described population dynamics of C. neritea.

Subjects :: Imposex
education.field_of_study
biology
Ecology
Population
Aquatic Science
biology.organism_classification
medicine.disease
Nassarius reticulatus
chemistry.chemical_compound
chemistry
Gastropoda
Tributyltin
medicine
Pseudohermaphroditism
education
Mollusca
Cyclope

ISSN :: 14697769 and 00253154
Volume :: 86
Database :: OpenAIRE
Journal :: Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
Accession number :: edsair.doi...........19c4f8f6c22e20160070f919ccbf10e4
Full Text :: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315406014159

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