The Catalase Activity of the Red Alga Ceramium virgatum Roth, 1797 as a Marker of the Quality of the Marine Environment Based on the Example of the Coastal Zone of Southwestern Crimea
- Authors: Shakhmatova O.A.1, Kovardakov S.A.1
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Affiliations:
- Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas, Russian Academy of Sciences
- Issue: Vol 45, No 6 (2019)
- Pages: 436-442
- Section: Article
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/1063-0740/article/view/184477
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063074019060087
- ID: 184477
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Abstract
This study determined the range of conditionally normal values of the catalase activity (СA) in the Black Sea red macroalga Ceramium virgatum. The level of CА in the alga corresponded to its conditionally normal functioning (26.79 ± 10.32 μg H2O2/(g wet weight min)). The minimum concentrations of hydrochemical parameters that correspond to the sensitivity threshold of CА in C. virgatum were found; these minimum values are 40 μM/L for organic nitrogen, 0.03 μM/L for nitrites, 0.3 μM/L for nitrates, 0.12 μM/L for inorganic phosphorus, and 0.47 μM/L for organic phosphorus.
About the authors
O. A. Shakhmatova
Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas, Russian Academy of Sciences
Author for correspondence.
Email: oshakh@gmail.com
Russian Federation, Sevastopol, 299011
S. A. Kovardakov
Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas, Russian Academy of Sciences
Email: oshakh@gmail.com
Russian Federation, Sevastopol, 299011