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Genotoxicity Biomarkers for Environmental Health Assessment Towards Sustainable Management of Fish Genetic Resources
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Researchers evaluated genotoxicity biomarkers in fish as tools for assessing environmental health in water bodies contaminated by chemicals, microplastics, heavy metals, and agricultural runoff. The paper proposes integrating these biomarkers into sustainable monitoring frameworks for protecting aquatic genetic resources from industrial and urban pollution.
High industrialization, urbanization, and agricultural practices generate several types of chemicals, pesticides, microplastics, dusts, and heavy metal particles that are severely accumulating in the environment, including in water bodies, causing environmental...
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Monitoring of Emerging Environmental Contaminants Using Bio-Indicators
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This review evaluates how living organisms—from algae and invertebrates to fish and plants—serve as bio-indicators for detecting emerging contaminants including microplastics, pharmaceuticals, and heavy metals in the environment. Biological monitoring complements chemical analysis by capturing the cumulative, real-world exposure that organisms experience, providing a more ecologically meaningful picture of pollution impacts on ecosystems and the food chain.
Integrative Approaches to Aquatic Toxicology Using Bioinformatics
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This work applies bioinformatics and integrative computational approaches to aquatic toxicology, enabling researchers to model how pollutants including microplastics affect gene expression, metabolic pathways, and ecosystem-level responses in aquatic organisms. Integrating molecular and ecological data accelerates identification of the biological mechanisms by which microplastics harm aquatic life, strengthening the scientific basis for regulatory standards that protect both ecosystems and human health.
Assessment of microplastic accumulation, genotoxicity, and gill histopathological alterations in wild herbivorous fishes from the Brantas River, Malang, Indonesia
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Researchers assessed microplastic accumulation, genotoxicity, and gill tissue damage in wild herbivorous fish from the Brantas River in Indonesia, providing integrative evidence that microplastic pollution in tropical river systems causes measurable biological harm at the cellular and tissue level.
Microplastics contamination suppressed immune and health status in cage cultured Barramundi: An investigation on pollution sources, ecotoxicological impacts, and transcription of genes involved in detoxification
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Farmed fish in ocean cages are absorbing tiny plastic particles from polluted waters, and this is weakening their immune systems and stressing their livers, based on a study of Barramundi (a popular food fish) from the Persian Gulf. The good news for consumers: the plastics mostly built up in gills and organs rather than the muscle we actually eat, so the direct risk to people eating this fish appears low, but the findings raise concerns about the health and sustainability of fish raised in plastic-polluted waters.
Analytical Challenges in the Ecotoxicology of Emerging Environmental Pollutants
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Researchers reviewed the scientific and analytical challenges of studying microplastics alongside pharmaceuticals and ionic liquids as emerging environmental pollutants, highlighting the difficulty of detecting and assessing the combined risks of these poorly understood contaminants in ecosystems.
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