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Accumulation of heavy metals in the whaleworm Anisakis simplex s.l. (Nematoda: Anisakidae)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 September 2003

Santiago Pascual  and
Elvira Abollo
Santiago Pascual*
Affiliation:
Laboratorio de Biología Celular, Instituto de Ciêencias Biomédicas de Abel Salazar, Universidade do Porto, Largo Profesor Abel Salazar 2, 4099-003, Porto, Portugal
Elvira Abollo
Affiliation:
Department of Sciences of Public Health, Parasitology Section, University of Rome La Sapienza, P.le Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Roma, Italy
*
‡Corresponding author, e-mail: PASCUALDELH@terra.es
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Abstract

Third-stage larval and adult infrapopulations of the whaleworm Anisakis simplex sensu lato (s.l.) (Nematoda: Anisakidae) from their respective fish, cephalopod and cetacean hosts caught or stranded in the Galician coast (north-west Spain), were analysed for heavy metals by atomic absorption spectrometry. Results suggest that the whaleworm may accumulate lead and copper to levels far in excess of their host tissues.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 83 , Issue 5 , October 2003 , pp. 905 - 906
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2003

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