Carcinus maenas

Hetherington, L.H., Livingstone, D.R., and Walker, C.H. (1996). Two and one-electron dependant reductive metabolism of nitroaromatics by Mytilus edulis, Carcinus maenas and Asterias rubens. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology 113, 231-239. 

Hansen, J.I., T. Mustafa, and M. Depledge. 1992a. Mechanisms of copper toxicity in the shore crab, Carcinus maenas. I. Effects on Na, K-ATPase activity, haemolymph electrolyte concentrations and tissue water contents. Mar. Biol. 114 253-257. 

Nonnotte, L., F. Boitel, and J.P. Truchot. 1993. Waterborne copper causes gill damage and hemolymph hypoxia in the shore crab Carcinus maenas. Canad. Jour. Zool. 71 1569-1576. 

Scott-Fordsmand, J.J. and M.H. Depledge. 1993. The influence of starvation and copper exposure on the composition of the dorsal carapace and distribution of trace metals in the shore crab Carcinus maenas (L.). Comp. Biochem. Physiol. 106C 537-543. 

Truchot, J.P. and F. Boitel. 1992. In vitro and in vivo effects of copper on hemocyanin-02 binding in the shore crab, Carcinus maenas. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. 103C 339-343. 

McEboy, A.E. and RD. Colarusso. 1988. Disposition of dietary benzo[a]pyrene in aquatic species winter flounder (Pseudopleuronectes americanus) and green crab (Carcinus maenas). Bull. Mt. Desert Isl. Biol. Lab. 27 45-57. 

Stentiford, G. D. and Feist, S. W., A histopathological survey of shore crab, Carcinus maenas and brown shrimp, Crangon crangon from six estuaries in the United Kingdom, J. Invert. Pathol. 88, 136, 2005. 

Schnapp, D., Schnapp, D., Kemp, G. D., and Smith, V. J. (1996). Purification and characterization of a proline-rich antibacterial peptide, with sequence similarity to bactenecin 7, from the haemocytes of the shore crab, Carcinus maenas. Eur. J. Biochem. 240,532-539. 

Robertson, J. D. Ionic regulation in the crab Carcinus maenas in relation to the moulting cycle. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. 1,183 (1960)... 

Digby, P. S. B. Calcification and its mechanisms in the shore crab Carcinus maenas. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. 178, 129 (1967)... 

Duchateau, G., Florkin, M. and Jeuniaux, C. (1959). Composante aminoacide des tissus, chez les crustaces. I. Composant amino-acide des muscles de Carcinus maenas L. lors du passage de l eau de mer a l eau saumatre et au cours de la mue. Archives Internationales de Physiologie etde Biochimie 67,489-500. 

FIGURE 6.3 Mercury concentrations (mg kg-1) and organic mercury percentages in the different tissues and genders of 1+, 2+, and 3+ year old Carcinus maenas. (After Coelho et al. 2008. Mar. Pollut. Bull. 56 1104-1110. With permission.)... 

Pereira, M.E., S.N. Abreu, J.P. Coelho, et al. 2006. Seasonal fluctuations of tissue mercury contents in the European shore crab Carcinus maenas from low and high contamination areas (Ria de Aveiro, Portugal). Mar. Pollut. Bull. 52 1450-1457. 

Laporte, J.M., F. Ribeyre, J.R Trachot, and A. Boudou. 1997. Combined effects of water pH and salinity on the bioaccumulation of inorganic mercury and methylmercury in the shore crab Carcinus maenas. Mar. Pollut. Bull. 34 880-893. 

Tomaschko, K.H., Ecdysteroids from Pycnogonum litorale (Arthropoda, Pantopoda) act as a chemical defense against Carcinus maenas (Crustacea, Decapoda), J. Chem. Ecol., 20, 1445, 1994. 

Wright, D.L. (1977) The effect of calcium on cadmium uptake by the shore crab Carcinus maenas. J. Exp. Biol. Ecol. 67, 163-165. 

From the observation that the common shore crab (Carcinus maenas, Crustacea, Decapoda) rejects ecdysteroid-containing food, Tomaschko et al. [206] developed an in vivo oesophagus dilation assay, capable of comparing ecdysteroid analogues 20E (EC50 = 1.8 x 10 jVI) and 20E22AC (4.6 x 10 4M). 

P. Zatta, P. Buso, G. Moschini, Selenium distribution in the tissues of Carcinus maenas, Comp. Biochem. Physiol., 81C (1985), 469-470. 

Martfn-Dfaz ML, Villena-Lincoln A, Bamber S, Blasco J, DelValls TA. 2005b. An integrated approach using bioaccumulation and biomarker measurements in female shore crab, Carcinus maenas. Chemosphere 58 615-626. 

The choice of which compound is used for the next stages of hydroxylation depends upon the evidence. An enzyme, 3/3-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase, has been found in the crab Carcinus maenas, which can reversibly... 

Camus 1, Davies P.E., Spicer JI, Jones M.B. (2004) Temperature-dependent physiological response of Carcinus maenas exposed to copper. Marine Environmental Research 58 781-785. 

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