A New Screening Method for Antifouling Substances against the Young Mussels <i>Mytilus edulis galloprovincialis</i>

• Kitajima Fumio

  FUSETANI Biofouling Project, ERATO, Research Development Corporation of Japan, c/o Yokohama R & D Center of Niigata Engineering Co., Ltd. Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Faculty of Science, Kyushu University

• Satuito Cyril Glenn

  FUSETANI Biofouling Project, ERATO, Research Development Corporation of Japan, c/o Yokohama R & D Center of Niigata Engineering Co., Ltd.

• Hirota Hiroshi

  FUSETANI Biofouling Project, ERATO, Research Development Corporation of Japan, c/o Yokohama R & D Center of Niigata Engineering Co., Ltd.

• Katsuyama Ichiro

  FUSETANI Biofouling Project, ERATO, Research Development Corporation of Japan, c/o Yokohama R & D Center of Niigata Engineering Co., Ltd.

• Fusetani Nobuhiro

  FUSETANI Biofouling Project, ERATO, Research Development Corporation of Japan, c/o Yokohama R & D Center of Niigata Engineering Co., Ltd.

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• A New Screening Method for Antifouling Substances against the Young Mussels Mytilus edulis galloprovincialis
• New Screening Method for Antifouling Su

Abstract

A new test for antifouling substances against the young blue mussels, Mytilus edulis galloprovincialis was developed. Mussels crawl around and search, using their foot, for a suitablesubstratum to attach themselves to by byssus threads. Repellent substances applied to the substratum inhibit this behavior, leading to the present assay method which is simple and fast, and allows an evaluation of, not only repellent activity, but also toxicity of samples. This assay method can also be carried out under the con-ditions closer to natural than those of previous methods, causing less stress to test organisms. The minimum repellent concentration of p-nonylphenol, which is a known repellent, was one order of magnitude lower when evaluated by the present method than that by the “byssus-thread method”, while cupric sulfate was evaluated similarly by both methods. This method is, therefore, useful for the discovery of nontoxic, antifouling substances from natural sources, including marine organisms.

Journal

• Fisheries science

  Fisheries science 61 (4), 578-583, 1995

  The Japanese Society of Fisheries Science

Keywords

• antifouling substances
• assay method
• mussels
• Mytilus edulis galloprovincialis
• repellent activity

Details

• CRID: 1390282679406766336
• NII Article ID: 130003902751
• NII Article ID: 10004862726
• NII Book ID: AA10993718
• DOI: 10.2331/fishsci.61.578
• NDL BIB ID: 3642644
• ISSN: 09199268
• Web Site: https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp/books/R000000004-I3642644
• Web Site: https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/fishsci1994/61/4/61_4_578/_pdf
• Text Lang: en
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