Measures of reproductive success and polychlorinated biphenyl residues in eggs and chicks of Forster's terns on Green Bay, Lake Michigan, Wisconsin—1988

Harris, Hallett J.; Erdman, Thomas C.; Ankley, Gerald T.; Lodge, Keith B.

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“…Hence, reduced basal corticosterone production may result in insufficient induction of key intermediary metabolic enzymes. Although the long-term consequences of down regulation of intermediary metabolic enzymes were not investigated in the present study, it is possible that deficits in gluconeogenic or lipogenic activity may play roles in the wasting observed in young chicks in highly contaminated areas within the Great Lakes basin (13,59 (61)(62)(63).…”

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“…Embryonic mortality and deformities, failure to thrive (wasting), and altered reproductive parameters measured as hatching success, number of young fledged, and length of egg incubation have been observed in various species of colonial fish-eating birds (11)(12)(13)(14). Although the incidences of these biological end points are highly variable from site to site, a combination of chemical residue data and epidemiologic criteria support an important etiologic role for coplanar polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and other dioxinlike organochlorines in some locations and species.…”

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Relationships between environmental organochlorine contaminant residues, plasma corticosterone concentrations, and intermediary metabolic enzyme activities in Great Lakes herring gull embryos.

Lorenzen¹,

Moon²,

Kennedy³

et al. 1999

Environ Health Perspect

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Expeniments were conducted to survey and detect diferences in plasma corticosterone concentrations and intermediary metabolic enzyme activities in herring gull (Lawus aynta) embryos environmentally exposed to organohlorne contamants n ovo. Unincubated fertile herring l e were colecd from an Atlantic coast contol site and various GreatLakes sites in 1997 and arifilly inuat in laborator. Liver and/or kidney tiues fom approxately h of the late-stage embryos were analyzed for the a es of various intermediary metabolic enzymes known to be regulated, at leat in part, by corticoternids. Bal plsma coticosterone concentrations were determined for the remaining embryos.

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Relationships between environmental organochlorine contaminant residues, plasma corticosterone concentrations, and intermediary metabolic enzyme activities in Great Lakes herring gull embryos.

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Moon²,

Kennedy³

et al. 1999

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“…Forster's tern chicks on Kidney Island at the mouth of the PCB-contaminated Fox River in Green Bay wasted in 1978, 1987, and 1988 (59-61). In 1988, 42% of the young were found dead near the nest, 57% of which appeared to have wasted (61). Caspian tern and herring gull chicks wasted in Saginaw Bay in 1992 (19).…”

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Wildlife As Sentinels of Human Health Effects in the Great Lakes. St. Lawrence Basin

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2001

Environmental Health Perspectives

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“…Point source pollution from manufacturing plants was responsible for reproductive failure of cormorants and pelicans in southern California (10)(11)(12)(13). Breeding failures and high organochlorine levels in aquatic birds nesting in the Great Lakes implicated DDE, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), dioxins, and dibenzofurans (14)(15)(16).…”

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Reproductive Effects in Birds Exposed to Pesticides and Industrial Chemicals

Fry¹

1995

Environmental Health Perspectives

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Environmental contamination by agricultural chemicals and industrial waste disposal results in adverse effects on reproduction of exposed birds. The diversity of pollutants results in physiological effects at several levels, including direct effects on breeding adults as well as developmental effects on embryos. The effects on embryos include mortality or reduced hatchability, failure of chicks to thrive (wasting syndrome), and teratological effects producing skeletal abnormalities and impaired differentiation of the reproductive and nervous systems through mechanisms of hormonal mimicking of estrogens. The range of chemical effects on adult birds covers acute mortality, sublethal stress, reduced fertility, suppression of egg formation, eggshell thinning, and impaired incubation and chick rearing behaviors. The types of pollutants shown to cause reproductive effects include organochlorine pesticides and industrial pollutants, organophosphate pesticides, petroleum hydrocarbons, heavy metals, and in a fewer number of reports, herbicides, and fungicides. o,p'-DDT, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and mixtures of organochlorines have been identified as environmental estrogens affecting populations of gulls breeding in polluted "hot spots" in southern California, the Great Lakes, and Puget Sound. Estrogenic organochlorines represent an important class of toxicants to birds because differentiation of the avian reproductive system is estrogen dependent. -Environ Health Perspect 103(Suppl 7): 165-171 (1995)

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Measures of reproductive success and polychlorinated biphenyl residues in eggs and chicks of Forster's terns on Green Bay, Lake Michigan, Wisconsin—1988

Cited by 54 publications

References 11 publications

Relationships between environmental organochlorine contaminant residues, plasma corticosterone concentrations, and intermediary metabolic enzyme activities in Great Lakes herring gull embryos.

Relationships between environmental organochlorine contaminant residues, plasma corticosterone concentrations, and intermediary metabolic enzyme activities in Great Lakes herring gull embryos.

Wildlife As Sentinels of Human Health Effects in the Great Lakes. St. Lawrence Basin

Reproductive Effects in Birds Exposed to Pesticides and Industrial Chemicals

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