Combined toxicity of mercury and cadmium to the tropical green mussel Perna viridis
- 1 January 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Inter-Research Science Center in Diseases of Aquatic Organisms
- Vol. 2 (1) , 65-72
- https://doi.org/10.3354/dao002065
Abstract
Effects were studied of mercury and cadmium individually and in combination on survival, byssus thread production, oxygen consumption and filtration rate of the intertidal bivalve Perna viridis (L.). Mercury and cadmium in mixtures interacted more-than-additively (synergism) in producing mortality in 96 h. Reduction in byssus-thread production, oxygen consumption and filtration rate recorded at sublethal levels of mercury-cadmium mixtures, however, was either less than or more than additive. Less than additive responses probably indicate ion antagonism.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: