Sentence examples for feeding shellfish from inspiring English sources

Filter feeding shellfish accumulate these toxins within their flesh, posing a risk to human health if they are consumed.

Some harmful algae (HA) produce potent natural toxins that are bioconcentrated by some filter feeding shellfish and finfish, and passed along the food chain causing illness or death if consumed by humans or other organisms.

It would be very useful to count with methods to detect traces of dinoflagellates, in order to predict massive algal blooming through constant monitoring of red tide episodes, thus preventing human consumption of toxic filter-feeding shellfish.

Symptoms of septicemia (mortality rate >50%) have been described mostly in Florida and Japan among persons who ate raw filter-feeding shellfish when seawater temperatures are >20°C (1 ).

These hardy eggs, or oocysts, are thought to be absorbed by filter-feeding shellfish that are otters' prey.

One trophic route was demonstrated in laboratory studies where pinfish and croakers (M. undulates) accumulated brevetoxin via feeding on contaminated shellfish [16].

Perhaps the most important source of dietary exposure of humans to microplastics at present is via filter-feeding shellfish, which retain particles from suspension on their gills for subsequent ingestion, and thus they are directly exposed to micro- and nanoplastics via the water column.

Filter-feeding shellfish species such as mussels, oysters and clams can be contaminated with various types of lipophilic marine toxins.

An in situ experimental protocol for dinoflagellate challenge was developed in order to implement it subsequently for Alexandrium detection in filter-feeding shellfish and water columns.

Our principal objective was to accurately determine the species of Alexandrium involved in local HABs in order to implement a real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay for its rapid and easy detection on filter-feeding shellfish, such as mussels.

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