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Mussels were collected monthly from May to September of 2009.

In parallel, mussels were collected at the same locations and levels of 16 PAHs and selected heavy metals determined.

A total of 190 recently dead mussels were collected from five 1 m×1 m quadrats.

Mussels were collected from Port Quin, Cornwall, UK and four tissues (mantle, digestive gland, gill and foot (Fig. 1)) dissected from each animal.

In support to this hypothesis is that Cu could be found at relative high concentration in sediments close to the site where mussels were collected [58].

Mussels were collected from the Main Beach site of Tatoosh Island (48.32°N, 124.74°W), located in the eastern Pacific 0.7 km off the northwestern tip of Washington State, USA.

Briefly, hemolymph from 12 mussels was collected from the adductor muscle and pooled into 4 samples (3 individuals per sample).

In order to assess the biological effects on the wild population of blue mussels, bivalves were collected at three different locations: at the oil-spill spot, at the other side of the harbour (opposite the oil-spill area), and in an uncontaminated site.

Mussel samples were collected at each site by SCUBA diving, placed in buckets filled with lake water and transported to the laboratory [5] [7].

Six mussel shells were collected from among 6 tidepools, while 6 more were collected at a distance of approximately 5 m apart on an adjacent exposed bench on 10 April 2008 and immediately cleaned of all soft tissue.

Indigenous floater mussels (Pyganodon grandis) were collected from ten limnologically similar lakes located along a Cd, Cu and Zn gradient.