What is it about?
This chapter presents an overview of the significant use of various biomarkers used as diagnostic and prognostic tools of water quality monitoring in order to assess the risks associated with health of aquatic ecosystem
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Why is it important?
Biomarkers have an advantage over chemical analysis in that they can demonstrate whether or not an organism has been meaningfully exposed. For some classes of persistent organic chemicals, such as the organochlorines, current detection limits are as low as parts per trillion. Thus, these man-made chemicals can be detected in almost all samples, but the physiological significance is rarely known. With biomarkers, it is possible to determine whether the physiology of the organism is significantly different from normal
Perspectives
This chapter deals with various biomarkers which correspond to the adaptation mechanisms developed by animals in response to contaminants in their environment, and biomarkers that reveal biological damage resulting from contaminant stressors
Mr Ankur Khare
CSIR-NEERI, Nagpur
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This page is a summary of: Integration of Biomarker Approach in Pollution Monitoring Programme of Aquatic Ecosystem, December 2017, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-7434-9_18.
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