Integrated Response of Biomarkers in the Assessment of the Quality of the Marine Environment on the Example of the Bivalve Mollusk Mytilus trossulus (Gould, 1850)
The possibility of using a battery of biomarkers – the lysosomal membrane stability (LMS), the genetic damage index (GDI), the activities of catalase (CAT) and glutathione-S-transferase (GSТ), the level of malondialdehyde (MDA), and the condition index (CI) – was tested for the assessment of pollution in the marine environment. These characters were used to calculate the index reflecting integrated biomarker response (IBR). The obtained index confirmed the known degree of marine pollution that increases in a row Vostok Bay < Kozmina Bay < Golden Horn Bay.