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Hydrobiological Journal

ISSN for PRINT: 0018-8166

Institutional price:	$1994.00
Issues per year:	6

Best Paper Award Selection - Editorial Board Site

2005, Volume41

124 pages

Issue price - $369.00

Influence of Environmental Factors on the Carbohydrate Metabolism Regulation in Purple Ramshorn Snail (Planorbarius purpura: Mollusca, Pulmonata, Bulinidae)

A. P. Stadnichenko
Zhitomir State Pedagogical Institute, Zhitomir, Ukraine

G. Ye. Kirichuk
Zhitomir (Zhytomyr) State Pedagogical Institute, Zhitomir, Ukraine

K. V. Taran
Zhitomir (Zhytomyr) State Pedagogical Institute, Zhitomir, Ukraine

ABSTRACT

The effect of ammonium nitrate (2000, 4000, 6000 mg/L) upon the glucose content in hemolymph of Planorbarius purpura was studied under normal conditions (Kroshenka River, Zhytomyr) and under the influence of complexes of unfavorable abiotic (oxygen deficiency in water, the increased radioactivity level of bottom sediments, acid reaction of the environment) and biotic ("water bloom", trematode infection) factors of the environment.