Document of bibliographic reference 207897

BibliographicReference record

Type

Bibliographic resource

Type of document

Journal article

BibLvlCode

AS

Title

Aspects of petroleum hydrocarbon metabolism in marine animals

Abstract

Studies on hydrocarbon composition of Black Sea mussels Mytilus galloprovincialis sampled from different habitats indicate that the quantity and composition of hydrocarbons distributed in the molluscs depend on season and sea-water quality. The data obtained under experimental conditions testify to the possibility of hydrocarbon concentration in mussel tissues after death. During filtration in sea water containing oil and oil products, these pollutants are bound into faeces and pseudofaeces which contain a greater percentage of aromatic compounds than the oil initially present in sea water. Quantitative data are presented on hydrocarbon changes in mussel excretory products during transfer from oil-polluted to clean sea water. When Black Sea crabs Eriphia verrucosa are fed with mussels containing fuel-oil components accumulated from sea water, the pollutants concentrate in the whole body of the crab. This is in contrast to parenteral oil uptake, which leads to a concentration of most of the hydrocarbon in the muscles.

WebOfScience code

https://www.webofscience.com/wos/woscc/full-record/WOS:A1980KS70700025

Bibliographic citation

Mironov, O.G. (1980). Aspects of petroleum hydrocarbon metabolism in marine animals. Helgol. Meeresunters. 33(1-4): 292-296. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02414754

Topic

Marine

Is peer reviewed

true