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  1. Amount and distribution of neustonic micro-plastic off the western Sardinian coast (Central-Western Mediterranean Sea)

    Article • Marine Environmental Research, September 2014, Elsevier

    Letizia Marsili

  2. An index based on the biodiversity of cetacean species to assess the environmental status of marine ecosystems

    Article • Marine Environmental Research, September 2014, Elsevier

    Letizia Marsili

  3. Effects of in vitro exposure to titanium dioxide on DNA integrity of bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) fibroblasts and leukocytes

    Article • Marine Environmental Research, September 2014, Elsevier

    Letizia Marsili

  4. Large filter feeding marine organisms as indicators of microplastic in the pelagic environment: The case studies of the Mediterranean basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus) and fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus)

    Article • Marine Environmental Research, September 2014, Elsevier

    Letizia Marsili

  5. Pilot study on levels of chemical contaminants and porphyrins in Caretta caretta from the Mediterranean Sea

    Article • Marine Environmental Research, September 2014, Elsevier

    Letizia Marsili

  6. Ecotoxicological status of seven sperm whales(Physeter macrocephalus)stranded along the Adriatic coast of Southern Italy

    Article • Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, June 2014, Wiley

    Letizia Marsili

  7. First application of comet assay in blood cells of Mediterranean loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta)

    Article • Marine Environmental Research, May 2014, Elsevier

    Letizia Marsili

  8. Cetacean strandings in Italy: an unusual mortality event along the Tyrrhenian Sea coast in 2013

    Article • Diseases of Aquatic Organisms, April 2014, Inter-Research Science Center

    Letizia Marsili

  9. Could feeding habit and migratory behaviour be the causes of different toxicological hazard to cetaceans of Gulf of California (Mexico)?

    Article • Environmental Science and Pollution Research, February 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Letizia Marsili

  10. Anthropogenic contaminants in Indo-Pacific humpback and Australian snubfin dolphins from the central and southern Great Barrier Reef

    Article • Environmental Pollution, November 2013, Elsevier

    Letizia Marsili

  11. Presence of plastic debris in loggerhead turtle stranded along the Tuscany coasts of the Pelagos Sanctuary for Mediterranean Marine Mammals (Italy)

    Article • Marine Pollution Bulletin, September 2013, Elsevier

    Letizia Marsili

  12. Biological threats and environmental pollutants, a lethal mixture for mediterranean cetaceans?

    Article • Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, July 2013, Cambridge University Press

    Letizia Marsili

  13. The Pelagos Sanctuary for Mediterranean marine mammals: Marine Protected Area (MPA) or marine polluted area? The case study of the striped dolphin (Stenella coeruleoalba)

    Article • Marine Pollution Bulletin, May 2013, Elsevier

    Letizia Marsili

  14. An “ex vivo” model to evaluate toxicological responses to mixtures of contaminants in cetaceans: Integumentum biopsy slices

    Article • Environmental Toxicology, January 2013, Wiley

    Letizia Marsili

  15. Are baleen whales exposed to the threat of microplastics? A case study of the Mediterranean fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus)

    Article • Marine Pollution Bulletin, November 2012, Elsevier

    Letizia Marsili

  16. The role of large marine vertebrates in the assessment of the quality of pelagic marine ecosystems

    Article • Marine Environmental Research, June 2012, Elsevier

    Letizia Marsili

  17. Dolphin Morbillivirus and Toxoplasma gondii coinfection in a Mediterranean fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus)

    Article • BMC Veterinary Research, January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Letizia Marsili

  18. Ecotoxicological diagnosis of striped dolphin (Stenella coeruleoalba) from the Mediterranean basin by skin biopsy and gene expression approach

    Article • Ecotoxicology, June 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Letizia Marsili

  19. Sometimes Sperm Whales (Physeter macrocephalus) Cannot Find Their Way Back to the High Seas: A Multidisciplinary Study on a Mass Stranding

    Article • PLoS ONE, May 2011, PLOS

    Professor Bruno Cozzi, Letizia Marsili, Professor Antonio Fernandez

  20. Pacific Ocean–Wide Profile of CYP1A1 Expression, Stable Carbon and Nitrogen Isotope Ratios, and Organic Contaminant Burden in Sperm Whale Skin Biopsies

    Article • Environmental Health Perspectives, December 2010, Environmental Health Perspectives

    Dr Luciano O Valenzuela, Dr sarah Lynne Mesnick, Letizia Marsili

  21. A multi-trial diagnostic tool in fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus) skin biopsies of the Pelagos Sanctuary (Mediterranean Sea) and the Gulf of California (Mexico)

    Article • Marine Environmental Research, January 2010, Elsevier

    Letizia Marsili

  22. The Italian wall lizard (Podarcis sicula) as a bioindicator of oil field activity

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, May 2009, Elsevier

    Letizia Marsili

  23. Genotoxic effects of produced waters in mosquito fish (Gambusia affinis)

    Article • Ecotoxicology, September 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Letizia Marsili

  24. First detection of CYP1A1 and CYP2B induction in Mediterranean cetacean skin biopsies and cultured fibroblasts by Western blot analysis

    Article • Marine Environmental Research, July 2008, Elsevier

    Letizia Marsili

  25. Use of immunofluorescence technique in cultured fibroblasts from Mediterranean cetaceans as new “in vitro” tool to investigate effects of environmental contaminants

    Article • Marine Environmental Research, July 2008, Elsevier

    Letizia Marsili

  26. Selection of reliable reference genes for qRT-PCR studies on cetacean fibroblast cultures exposed to OCs, PBDEs, and 17β-estradiol

    Article • Aquatic Toxicology, May 2008, Elsevier

    Letizia Marsili

  27. Quantitative Real-Time PCR Detection of TRPV1–4 Gene Expression in Human Leukocytes from Healthy and Hyposensitive Subjects

    Article • Molecular Pain, January 2008, SAGE Publications

    Letizia Marsili

  28. Potential toxicological hazard due to endocrine-disrupting chemicals on Mediterranean top predators: State of art, gender differences and methodological tools

    Article • Environmental Research, May 2007, Elsevier

    Letizia Marsili

  29. Application of a suite of biomarkers in Posidonia oceanica (L.) delile to assess the ecotoxicological impact on the coastal environment

    Article • Marine Environmental Research, January 2006, Elsevier

    Letizia Marsili

  30. Development of new-tools to investigate toxicological hazard due to endocrine disruptor organochlorines and emerging contaminants in Mediterranean cetaceans

    Article • Marine Environmental Research, January 2006, Elsevier

    Letizia Marsili

  31. Article • BMC Molecular Biology, January 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Letizia Marsili

  32. Use of biomarkers to investigate toxicological effects of produced water treated with conventional and innovative methods

    Article • Marine Environmental Research, January 2006, Elsevier

    Letizia Marsili

  33. Endocrine Disruptors in Mediterranean Top Marine Predators

    Article • Environmental Science and Pollution Research, November 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Letizia Marsili

  34. Assessment of toxicological status of a SW Mediterranean segment population of striped dolphin (Stenella coeruleoalba) using skin biopsy

    Article • Marine Environmental Research, August 2004, Elsevier

    Letizia Marsili

  35. Evaluation of ecotoxicological effects of endocrine disrupters during a four-year survey of the Mediterranean population of swordfish (Xiphias gladius)

    Article • Marine Environmental Research, August 2004, Elsevier

    Letizia Marsili

  36. Theoretical models to evaluate hazard due to organochlorine compounds (OCs) in Mediterranean striped dolphin (Stenella coeruleoalba)

    Article • Chemosphere, August 2004, Elsevier

    Letizia Marsili

  37. The use of a non-lethal tool for evaluating toxicological hazard of organochlorine contaminants in Mediterranean cetaceans: new data 10 years after the first paper published in MPB

    Article • Marine Pollution Bulletin, August 2003, Elsevier

    Letizia Marsili

  38. Biomarkers of Exposure and Effects for Assessing Toxicological Risk of Endocrine Disrupters in Top Predators of the Mediterranean Sea

    Article • Marine Ecology, December 2002, Wiley

    Letizia Marsili

  39. Biomarkers for endocrine disruptors in three species of Mediterranean large pelagic fish

    Article • Marine Environmental Research, September 2002, Elsevier

    Letizia Marsili

  40. Multi-trial biomarker approach in Meganyctiphanes norvegica: a potential early indicator of health status of the Mediterranean “whale sanctuary”

    Article • Marine Environmental Research, September 2002, Elsevier

    Letizia Marsili

  41. Abstracts from the Eleventh International Symposium on Pollutant Responses in Marine Organisms (PRIMO 11)—Biomarkers

    Article • Marine Environmental Research, September 2002, Elsevier

    Letizia Marsili

  42. The use of porphyrins as a non-destructive biomarker of exposure to contaminants in two sea lion populations

    Article • Marine Environmental Research, September 2002, Elsevier

    Letizia Marsili

  43. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in subcutaneous biopsies of Mediterranean cetaceans

    Article • Chemosphere, July 2001, Elsevier

    Letizia Marsili

  44. Effect of the 1990 die-off in the northern Italian seas on the developmental stability of the striped dolphinStenella coeruleoalba (Meyen, 1833)

    Article • Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, September 2000, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Letizia Marsili

  45. Skin biopsies for cell cultures from Mediterranean free-ranging cetaceans

    Article • Marine Environmental Research, July 2000, Elsevier

    Letizia Marsili

  46. Skin biopsy of Mediterranean cetaceans for the investigation of interspecies susceptibility to xenobiotic contaminants

    Article • Marine Environmental Research, July 2000, Elsevier

    Letizia Marsili

  47. Nondestructive biomarkers of exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals in endangered species of wildlife

    Article • Chemosphere, October 1999, Elsevier

    Letizia Marsili

  48. Congener Specific Determination and Enantiomeric Ratios of Chiral Polychlorinated Biphenyls in Striped Dolphins (Stenella coeruleoalba) from the Mediterranean Sea

    Article • Environmental Science & Technology, June 1999, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Letizia Marsili

  49. Organochlorine Compounds in Pelicans ( Pelecanus crispus and Pelecanus onocrotalus ) Nesting at Lake Mikri Prespa, North Western Greece

    Article • Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, April 1999, Springer Science + Business Media

    Letizia Marsili

  50. Relationship between organochlorine contaminants and mixed function oxidase activity in skin biopsy specimens of mediterranean fin whales (Balaenoptera physalus)

    Article • Chemosphere, October 1998, Elsevier

    Letizia Marsili

  51. Trace elements in striped dolphins (Stenella coeruleoalba) from the western Mediterranean

    Article • Environmental Pollution, January 1998, Elsevier

    Letizia Marsili

  52. Skin biopsy as a nondestructive tool for the toxicological assessment of endangered populations of pinnipeds: Preliminary results on mixed function oxidase in Otaria flavescens

    Article • Chemosphere, October 1997, Elsevier

    Letizia Marsili

  53. Use of nondestructive biomarkers and residue analysis to assess the health status of endangered species of pinnipeds in the south-west Atlantic

    Article • Marine Pollution Bulletin, March 1997, Elsevier

    Letizia Marsili

  54. Fingerprint of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in two populations of southern sea lions (Otaria flavescens)

    Article • Chemosphere, February 1997, Elsevier

    Letizia Marsili

  55. Article • Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, January 1997, Springer Science + Business Media

    Letizia Marsili

  56. PCB levels in bird blood and relationship to MFO responses

    Article • Chemosphere, August 1996, Elsevier

    Letizia Marsili

  57. Porphyrins in excreta: a nondestructive biomarker for the hazard assessment of birds contaminated with PCBs

    Article • Chemosphere, July 1996, Elsevier

    Letizia Marsili

  58. Organochlorine levels in subcutaneous blubber biopsies of fin whales (Balaenoptera physalus) and striped dolphins (Stenella coeruleoalba) from the Mediterranean Sea

    Article • Environmental Pollution, January 1996, Elsevier

    Letizia Marsili

  59. Interspecific differences in mixed function oxidase activity in birds: a tool to identify ‘species at risk’

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, October 1995, Elsevier

    Letizia Marsili

  60. Recalcitrant organochlorine compounds in captive bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus): Biomagnification or bioaccumulation?

    Article • Chemosphere, October 1995, Elsevier

    Letizia Marsili

  61. Interspecies differences in mixed function oxidase activity in birds: Relationship between feeding habits, detoxication activities and organochlorine accumulation

    Article • Environmental Pollution, January 1995, Elsevier

    Letizia Marsili

  62. Induction of mixed function oxidase (MFO) system in two species of antarctic fish from Terra Nova Bay (Ross Sea)

    Article • Polar Biology, December 1992, Springer Science + Business Media

    Letizia Marsili

  63. Influence of cadmium on PCB congener accumulation in quail

    Article • Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, November 1992, Springer Science + Business Media

    Letizia Marsili

  64. The use of non-destructive biomarker in Mediterranean cetaceans: Preliminary data on MFO activity in skin biopsy

    Article • Marine Pollution Bulletin, September 1992, Elsevier

    Letizia Marsili

  65. Mixed function oxidase activity and chlorinated hydrocarbon residues in antarctic sea birds: South polar skua (Catharacta maccormicki) and adélie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae)

    Article • Marine Environmental Research, January 1992, Elsevier

    Letizia Marsili