{"id":272456,"date":"2010-02-03T07:55:11","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T12:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3104"},"modified":"2010-02-03T07:55:11","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T12:55:11","slug":"marine-lab-hunts-subtle-clues-to-environmental-threats-to-blue-crabs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/272456","title":{"rendered":"Marine Lab Hunts Subtle Clues to Environmental Threats to Blue Crabs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2010\/01\/100126175917.htm\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/images\/2010\/01\/100126175917.jpg\" width=\"259\" align=\"right\" height=\"193\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2010\/01\/100126175917.htm\" >Science Daily<\/a>: The Atlantic blue crab, <em>Callinectes sapidus<\/em>, long prized as a savory meal at a summer party or seafood restaurant, is a multi-million dollar source of income for those who harvest, process and market the crustacean along the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf coasts.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the blue crab population has been declining in recent years under the assault of viruses, bacteria and man-made contaminants. The signs of the attack often are subtle, so researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the College of Charleston (CofC) are at work trying to identify the clues that will finger specific, yet elusive, culprits.<\/p>\n<p>Pathogens and pollutants impair the blue crab&#8217;s metabolic processes, the chemical reactions that produce energy for cells. These stresses should cause tell-tale changes in the levels of metabolites, small chemical compounds created during metabolism. Working at the Hollings Marine Laboratory (HML) in Charleston, S.C., the NIST\/CofC research team is using a technology similar to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to identify and quantify the metabolites that increase in quantity under common environmental stresses to blue crabs &#8212; metabolites that could be used as biomarkers to identify the specific sources.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2010\/01\/100126175917.htm\" >Read more &gt;&gt; <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3104&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_3104\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Share This<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science Daily: The Atlantic blue crab, Callinectes sapidus, long prized as a savory meal at a summer party or seafood restaurant, is a multi-million dollar source of income for those who harvest, process and market the crustacean along the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf coasts. Unfortunately, the blue crab population has been declining in recent years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4055,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4055"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}