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List of works by M H. Costa

A ranking system for reference libraries of DNA barcodes: application to marine fish species from Portugal

scientific article published on April 25, 2012

Advances on assessing nanotoxicity in marine fish - the pros and cons of combining an ex vivo approach and histopathological analysis in gills

scientific article published on 13 October 2019

Assessment of the genotoxic potential of contaminated estuarine sediments in fish peripheral blood: laboratory versus in situ studies

scientific article published on 20 October 2010

Benthic biotope index for classifying habitats in the Sado Estuary: Portugal.

scientific article published on December 2005

Broodstock diet effect on sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus (Lamarck, 1816) endotrophic larvae development: potential for their year-round use in environmental toxicology assessment.

scientific article published on 30 December 2010

Contrasting morphological and DNA barcode-suggested species boundaries among shallow-water amphipod fauna from the southern European Atlantic coast

scientific article published on 21 October 2016

DNA damage and metal accumulation in four tissues of feral Octopus vulgaris from two coastal areas in Portugal

scientific article published on 16 August 2010

DNA metabarcoding for high-throughput monitoring of estuarine macrobenthic communities

scientific article published on 15 November 2017

Delineation of Estuarine Management Areas Using Multivariate Geostatistics: The Case of Sado Estuary

scientific article published on September 15, 2003

Development of a method for the detection of polystyrene microplastics in paraffin-embedded histological sections

scientific article published on 20 October 2017

Distribution Patterns of Microplastics in Seawater Surface at a Portuguese Estuary and Marine Park

scientific article published in 2020

Distribution patterns of benthic bacteria and nematode communities in estuarine sediments

scientific article published in 2023

Distribution patterns of microplastics in subtidal sediments from the Sado river estuary and the Arrábida marine park, Portugal

scientific article published in 2022

Ecological risk assessment of impacted estuarine areas: integrating histological and biochemical endpoints in wild Senegalese sole

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Ecological risk assessment of sediment management areas: application to Sado Estuary, Portugal

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Ecotoxicological heterogeneity in transitional coastal habitats assessed through the integration of biomarkers and sediment-contamination profiles: a case study using a commercial clam

scientific article published on 6 October 2012

Effects of carcinogenic versus non-carcinogenic AHR-active PAHs and their mixtures: lessons from ecological relevance

scientific article published on 19 February 2015

Effects of sediment geochemical properties on the toxicity of copper-spiked sediments to the marine amphipod Gammarus locusta

scientific article published on 01 March 2000

Effects of water-borne copper on metallothionein and lipid peroxidation in the marine amphipod Gammarus locusta

scientific article published on 01 September 2002

Enhanced primers for amplification of DNA barcodes from a broad range of marine metazoans

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Environment and human health issues

scientific article published on 18 July 2009

Evaluation of the potential of the common cockle (Cerastoderma edule L.) for the ecological risk assessment of estuarine sediments: bioaccumulation and biomarkers

scientific article published on 18 August 2010

Histopathological findings on Carassius auratus hepatopancreas upon exposure to acrylamide: correlation with genotoxicity and metabolic alterations.

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Hypocholesterolaemic pharmaceutical simvastatin disrupts reproduction and population growth of the amphipod Gammarus locusta at the ng/L range

scientific article published on 19 July 2014

Macrozoobenthic community structure in two Portuguese estuaries: Relationship with organic enrichment and nutrient gradients

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Multi-organ histological observations on juvenile Senegalese soles exposed to low concentrations of waterborne cadmium

scientific article published on July 1, 2012

Starting a DNA barcode reference library for shallow water polychaetes from the southern European Atlantic coast

scientific article published on 30 June 2015

Studies on biomarkers of copper exposure and toxicity in the marine amphipod Gammarus locusta (Crustacea): I. Induction of metallothionein and lipid peroxidation

scientific article published in 2002

Toxicity ranking of estuarine sediments on the basis of Sparus aurata biomarkers

scientific article published in March 2007

Transcriptomic analyses in a benthic fish exposed to contaminated estuarine sediments through laboratory and in situ bioassays

scientific article published on 10 June 2011

With a little help from DNA barcoding: investigating the diversity of Gastropoda from the Portuguese coast

scientific article published on 15 February 2016