Publications by authors named "A Di Cosmo"
Limited data are available about the coastal ecology of the Calabria region, in the southern Italy. As well, data about the levels of biodiversity and the structure of food webs in these environments are totally missing. However, considering the wide range of physical and ecological conditions distinguishing these ecosystems, a remarkable spread of biodiversity is expected.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThrough this collection of papers, we have considered in depth the effects that humans have on invertebrate welfare in a variety of contexts [...
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn the last years biodegradable polymers (BPs) were largely used as real opportunity to solve plastic pollution. Otherwise, their wide use in commercial products, such as packaging sector, is causing a new pollution alarm, mainly because few data reported about their behaviour in the environment and toxicity on marine organisms. Our previous results showed that embryos of the sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus (Lmk) exposed to poly(ε-caprolactone) (PCL), poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) (PHB) and poly(lactic acid) (PLA) showed delay of their development and morphological malformations, also affecting at the molecular levels the expression of several genes involved in different functional responses.
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- Caulerpin (CAU) is a bioactive compound from invasive green algae, while caffeine (CAF) is a common water pollutant and psychoactive substance. Both can accumulate in aquatic life and in human diets.
- The study used mussels (Mytilus galloprovincialis) to explore potential interactions between CAU and CAF, finding that CAF induced toxic effects, but CAU did not worsen these effects or cause cumulative damage.
- The results suggest CAU may help reduce CAF toxicity due to its potential role in detoxification processes, encouraging more research into its possible use as a food additive for clearing pollutants from the body.