With an increase in life expectancy and decrease of quality-of-life couple with the high
prevalence of diseases, diet is expected to play a key function in sustaining human health …

Extensive biodiversity and availability of marine and estuarine molluscs, along with their
their wide-range of utilities as food and nutraceutical resources developed keen attention of …

In coastal temperate regions such as the Baltic Sea, calcifying bivalves dominate benthic
communities playing a vital ecological role in maintaining biodiversity and nutrient recycling …

The extremely vast biodiversity represented by marine mollusks alongside their widespread
utility as a source of food and their high nutritional value has aroused great interest from the …

Turban snails (family Turbinidae) are gastropod molluscs that are harvested for human
consumption yet little is known about the nutritional properties of these snails, particularly …

This comprehensive volume provides a plethora of first-hand information on the diversity,
biology, and ecology of edible marine bivalve molluscs. It covers the biology of edible …

Nutritional quality parameters, microbiological and technological quality indicators
(condition index, meat yield and water-holding capacity) of blue mussel, Mytilus …

Over the past decades, numerous Mollusca species have received more attention in
development and utilization as valuable bio-resources. Many efforts have been focused on …

Shellfish are found in the coastal region throughout the tropical, sub-tropic and temperate
zone. A variety of shellfish species are known in nature. Being filter-feeding organisms …

In this study, the antioxidant, antibacterial and anticoagulant activities of sulfated
polysaccharides extracted from Solen marginatus flesh were investigated via …