ECOTOX, Ecotoxicology and Marine Chemical Pollution, is a research team at the University of Vigo. It is staffed by a dedicated team of scientists with a wide range of experience in all types of ecotoxicology studies, belonging to the Department of Ecology and Animal Biology and the Department of Analytical Chemistry and Food.
Research lines:
-Toxicity of pollutants in marine organisms: towards scientifically sound marine Environmental Quality Criteria.
-Design "in situ" and laboratory bioassays, for assessing and monitoring pollution in coastal ecosystems. The biological models used include the microalga Isochrysis galbana, and early stages of mollusks, crustaceans, echinoderms and fishes.
-Bioaccumulation and molecular biomarkers in mussels: glutathione transferase (GST), acetylcholine-esterase (AChE), glutathione peroxidase (GPx).
-Tools for detection of estrogenic endocrine disruption in the model fish C. variagetus.

Conservation Biology
Ecology
Ecotoxicology
Marine Biology
Molecular Biology

As an Ecotoxicology and Marine Chemical Pollution Research Group, we are interested in joining a project related to our research lines: toxicity of pollutants in marine organisms, assessing and monitoring pollution in coastal ecosystems, bioaccumulation and molecular biomarkers in mussels and/or tools for detection of estrogenic endocrine disruption in fishes.

ecotoxicology, marine, pollution, toxicity, pollutants, coastal, biomarkers, bioaccumulation, estrogenic endocrine disruption

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