Dynamics of developmental stability of seals and pollution in the Baltic Sea

Retrospective evaluation of data-limited fisheries: a case from Hong Kong

“…acidification, herbicides, thermal effluent) have been shown to affect the reproductive behaviour of fishes in a number of cases (Jones and Reynolds, 1997). Organic pollutants such as organochlorines can disrupt reproductive and immune systems, affect growth and trigger cancers and other diseases in birds and marine mammals (Martineau et al, 1994;Lahvis et al, 1995;Zakharov et al, 1997;Busbee et al, 1999;Thompson and Hamer, 2000). Thus it is expected that the local marine fauna are receiving similar threats.…”

Natural hyperthermia and expression of the heat shock protein Hsp70 affect developmental abnormalities in Drosophila melanogaster

“…Although anthropogenic habitat disturbance commonly increases FA in nature (Badyaev 1998;Clarke 1993;Groenendijk et al 1998;Kirchhoff et al 1999;Møller 1998;Ostbye et al 1997;Zakharov et al 1997), only seldom has FA been shown to increase along natural stress gradients (Alados et al 1993;Carbonell and Telleria 1998;Huether 1969;Soulé and Baker 1968;Sullivan 1998). None of these studies has identified temperature or any other single variable as the source of variation in FA.…”

Bioindication of Environmental Quality of the Yakutsk City Administrative Districts on the Basis of Leaf Fluctuating Asymmetry and Seed Quality of the Silver Birch Betula pendula Roth.

“…Достаточно большое число работ посвящено изучению ФА у различных живот-ных: повышение ФА может наблюдаться на фазе пика численности у животных [9]; стрес-сирующего воздействия различного характера [10][11][12][13][14][15]. Известно, что уровень флуктуирующей асимметрии у рыб, лягушек, а также водных и околоводных млекопитающих возрастает при повышении загрязнения водоема [15][16][17].…”