Sea urchin embryos could be used to evaluate quality of marine environment, researcher proposes
Wednesday, February 2, 2011 - 09:31
in Biology & Nature
Estuaries are highly appropriate systems for evaluating contamination. They are areas of accumulation of sediments and, effectively, numerous contaminants are found associated with these sedimentary particles. In order to study the effects of such contaminants in the environment, a researcher has proposed exposing sea urchin embryos to sediments suspected of being contaminated, in order to quantify any biological response from the organisms.