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A significant impact of marine pollution is the contamination of seafood which has raised concerns due to its potential human health risks. This current study investigated seasonal bioaccumulation of 9 heavy metals (Cd, Co, Cr, Cu, Fe, Mn, Ni, Pb, and Zn) in 14 commercially important seafood species, including 4 fish, 5 molluscs, and 5 crustacean species. Samples were collected from Pattani Bay, Pattani province, Thailand, during the dry (July 2020) and wet (February 2021) seasons. The edible samples were analyzed for heavy metal concentrations using a flame atomic absorption spectrophotometer. The bioaccumulation trend of heavy metals decreased in the sequence of molluscs > crustaceans > fish. The possible human health risks associated with heavy metal-contaminated seafood consumption were assessed. The parameters investigated for non-carcinogenic and carcinogenic were target hazard quotient (THQ), total hazard index (HI), and target cancer risk (TR). The average ranges of THQs (7.79 × 10−8–8.97 × 10−3), HIs (4.30 × 10−5–1.55 × 10−2), and TRs (2.70 × 10−9–1.34 × 10−5) were observed in the studied seafood species. The results revealed no non-carcinogenic and carcinogenic health risks from consuming these 14 kinds of seafood.

Feeding ecology of Sillago sihama and Sillago ingenuua and interrelationship with other 15 fish

The present study aims to analyze concerned karyotyping and idiograming of the three-spot damselfish (Dascyllus trimaculatus

The snakeheads, freshwater perciform fish are the member of the family Channidae. The karyotype diversification was observed in this species. In this study, we investigate the karyotype and chromosomal characteristic of nucleolar organizing regions (NORs) in Channa marulius (Hamilton, 1822) and C. marulioides (Bleeker, 1851) from Thailand. The metaphase chromosomes were prepared from kidney cells of five male and five female fishes. Conventional and Ag-NOR staining techniques were applied to the chromosomes. The results revealed that: the diploid chromosome number (2n) of C. marulius was 44, fundamental number (NF) was 56, the karyotype formula should be deduced as 2n=L m 4 +L a 6 +L t 10 +M a 2 +M t 22 , the NORs are located at the telomeric position of the short arm of chromosome pairs 3 and 4; the 2n of C. marulioides was 38, NF was 68, the karyotype formula should be deduced as 2n=L m 8 +L a 2 +M m 2 +M a 18 +M t 8 , the NORs are located at the telomeric position of the short arm of chromosome pairs 10 and 11. The difference of 2n and NF in males and females fish was not observed. The number of Ag-NORs in metaphase cell varies between two and four among the cells in the same sample both in C. marulius and C. marulioides.