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Castro, Ítalo Braga de; Braga, Anna Rafaela Cavalcante; Rocha-Barreira, Cristina de Almeida
(2005)
O imposex é um excelente marcador da contaminação marinha por compostos orgânicos de estanho (COEs). Esse fenômeno consiste no surgimento de caracteres sexuais masculinos
mensuráveis, em fêmeas de neogastrópodes. Um ...
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Castro, Ítalo Braga de; Lima, Aline Fernandes Alves de; Braga, Anna Rafaela Cavalcante; Rocha-Barreira, Cristina de Almeida
(2007)
Imposex is the occurrence of male sexual features in female prosobranch mollusks exposed to organotin compounds. Since
imposex has measurable characteristics, it has been used as a bioindication tool for the presence of ...
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Azevedo, Deyse de; Rocha-Barreira, Cristina de Almeida; Matthews-Cascon, Helena; Castro, Ítalo Braga de
(2012)
This is the first report on imposex occurrence in Pugilina morio. Imposex levels in P. morio from Ceara River Estuary were assessed by a non-lethal method. The obtained imposex parameters were: percentage = 37.1 %,
female ...
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Castro, Ítalo Braga de; Meirelles, Carlos Augusto Oliveira de; Pinheiro, Jully Cristiny Lopes; Matthews-Cascon, Helena; Rocha-Barreira, Cristina de Almeida
(2005)
Imposex is characterized by the development of masculine sexual organs in neogastropod females,caused by organotin contamination of the seawater. These compounds,as tributyltin (TBT), are used world-wide as biocidal agents ...
