Determination of Organotin Compounds in the Foodweb of a Shallow Freshwater Lake in The Netherlands

Stäb, Joan A.; Traas, G. Stroomberg T. P.; Kesteren, J. van; Leonards, P.E.G.; Hattum, B. van; Brinkman, W. P. Cofino U. A. Th.

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“…The greatest concentration of TPT (n ϭ 8, 30.8-128 ng/g ww) was found in liver. This concentration was greater than those in fishes from Inner Danish waters (16), and comparable with those in marine fishes from the Japanese market (17), but less than those from the Mediterranean (10), Taiwan (15), Netherlands (18), and Japan (19). Although concentrations of total BTs in liver (365 Ϯ 447 ng/g ww) were greater than those of PTs (168 Ϯ 134 ng/g ww), concentrations of TPT (68.0 Ϯ 31.2 ng/g ww) were greater than those of TBT (Ͻ1.0 ng/g ww).…”

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confidence: 58%

Malformations of the endangered Chinese sturgeon, Acipenser sinensis , and its causal agent

Zhang

Wei

et al. 2009

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

118

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The anadromous Chinese sturgeon (Acipenser sinensis) is endangered and listed among the first class of protected animals in China. The possible causes for the decline of this species are the effects of synthetic chemicals, and loss of critical habitat. Chinese sturgeon in the Yangtze River have accumulated triphenyltin (TPT) to 31-128 ng/g wet weigh (ww) in liver, which is greater than the concentrations of tributyltin (<1.0 ng/g ww). Maternal transfer of TPT has resulted in concentrations of 25.5 ؎ 13.0 ng/g ww in eggs of wild Chinese sturgeon, which poses a significant risk to the larvae naturally fertilized or hatched in the Yangtze River. The incidence of deformities in fry was 7.5%, with 1.2% of individuals exhibiting ocular abnormal development, and 6.3% exhibited skeletal/morphological deformations. The incidences of both ocular and skeletal/morphological deformations were directly proportional to the TPT concentration in the eggs of both the Chinese sturgeon and the Siberian sturgeon (Acipenser baerii) in controlled laboratory studies. The rates of deformities in the controlled studies were consistent with the rates caused at the similar concentrations in eggs collected from the field. Thus, TPT is the causal agent to induce the malformation of larvae of Chinese sturgeon. The incidence of deformed larvae of Chinese sturgeon is an indicator of overall population-level effects of TPT on Chinese sturgeon, because TPT at environmentally relevant concentrations can result in significantly decrease both quality and quantity of eggs and spawning frequency of fish.teratogenesis ͉ fish ͉ triphenyltin ͉ Yangtze River

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confidence: 58%

Malformations of the endangered Chinese sturgeon, Acipenser sinensis , and its causal agent

Zhang

Wei

et al. 2009

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

118

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“…92 and 12 ppb, respectively for TPhT and TBT); the same holds for the Japanese rock shell (Horiguchi et al 1994), a species showing marked potentid for sediment contamination monitoring (Han et al 19%) The apparent contrast of these 2 reports with the present data (remember N. lapillus inhabits only rocky bottoms) reinforces the conclusion of Stab et al r 1996) that TPhT residues are higher than TBTs in in~rnals living in or near to the sediment. As for its sources, TPhT is the only OT used as a fungicide for crop protection, can be transported in considerable q u a n t l t j~ via the atmosphere and is added in low proportions 1<10% of TBT) as a CO-toxlcant to some long-performance antifouling paints (Stab et al 1995(Stab et al , 1996. Such paints are overwhelmingly applied to smali pleasure boats and, according to the literature, this results In a pattern of triorganotin occurrence, mussels from a marina contained both TBT and TPhT (3.516 and 31 1 ppb, respectively) whlle those collected rvi%m Barcelona commercial harbour accumulated considerable TBT but no TPhT (Morclllo et al 19971; :similarly, subsurface waters from the Cote dlAzwr were contaminated by both compounds if collected ir.…”

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Ubiquitous imposex and organotin bioaccumulation in gastropods Nucella lapillus from Galicia (NW Spain):a possible effect of nearshore shipping

Ruiz¹,

Quintela²,

Barreiro³

1998

Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser.

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A survey was conducted during the summer of 1996 to assess the expression, extent and impact of hnposex (a set of sexual anomalies) in 37 populations of Nucella lapillusspread over the Galician coastline (NW Spain); the bioaccumulation of several organotin (OT) species (monobutyltin. MBT; dibutyltin, DBT; tributyltin, TBT; and triphenyltin, TPhT) was also determined in 20 of those samples. While imposex, TBT (from 36 to 974 ng Sn g-' dry weight, ppb) and DBT (from 169 to 909 ppb) were detected in every sample examined, MBT (from 65 to 387 ppb) and TPhT (from 39 to 250 ppb) were quantifiable in only 15 and 11 of them, respectively. lmposex was found to have led to frequent female sterilisation in most of the populations of this intertidal gastropod, although none of them is considered to be at risk of extinction. This may be partially due to the observation that these specimens appear more resistant to the sterilising effect of TBT than northern congeners. Fishing and merchant fleets are thought to be the dominant sources of OT pollution within embayments, with pleasure boats being of lesser importance. In addition, the characteristic pattern of OT body residues [i.e. undetectable TPhT and low TBT/(TBT+DBT) ratio] indicates that imposex in several open coast populations may stem from nearshore merchant shipping via the horizontal transport of paint leachates.

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“…Organotin compounds have also been found in seafowl, the highest trophic level of the marine food web. However, it should be noted that TBT levels in seafowl were much lower than those found in organisms at lower trophic levels and thus presumably no obvious magnification of TBT occurred in the marine food web (Tanabe et al, 1998;Kannan et al, 1998Kannan et al, , 1996Stä b et al, 1996). In addition to the marine food web, there have been reports describing high organotin concentrations in marine mammals all over the world (Hoeh, 2001).…”

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Organotin pollution in China: An overview of the current state and potential health risk

Cao

Jiang

Zhou

et al. 2009

Journal of Environmental Management

106

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Determination of Organotin Compounds in the Foodweb of a Shallow Freshwater Lake in The Netherlands

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Malformations of the endangered Chinese sturgeon, Acipenser sinensis , and its causal agent

Malformations of the endangered Chinese sturgeon, Acipenser sinensis , and its causal agent

Ubiquitous imposex and organotin bioaccumulation in gastropods Nucella lapillus from Galicia (NW Spain):a possible effect of nearshore shipping

Organotin pollution in China: An overview of the current state and potential health risk

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