Swimming behaviour in two ecologically similar three-spined (Gasterosteus aculeatus L.) and nine-spined sticklebacks (Pungitius pungitius L.): a comparative approach for modelling the toxicity of metal mixtures

Makaras, Tomas; Stankevičiūtė, Milda

doi:10.1007/s11356-021-16783-1

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“…In this study, the embryos were mostly converted from the normal head‐first emergence to tail‐first emergence, with cumulative probabilities of tail‐first emergence of 34.82%, 14.81% and 49.07% under copper, zinc and MB treatments, respectively. Behavioural response sensitivity can vary between fish and among chemicals (Hartwell et al ., 1989; Hong & Zha, 2019; Makaras & Stankevičiūtė, 2022; Mohamat‐Yusuff et al ., 2018; Shao et al ., 2014), and animals exhibit various stress behaviours to better adapt to adverse environments (Mohamat‐Yusuff et al ., 2018). Copper exposure has been reported to induce Schizothorax o'connori and Schizothorax waltoni to try to avoid toxic water by swimming fast (Shao et al ., 2014), whereas 10‐spined sticklebacks appeared to be indifferent to highly toxic solutions of CuSO 4 due to stupefaction (Hartwell et al ., 1989).…”

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Toxicity of common biocides used in aquaculture to embryos and larvae of Brachymystax tsinlingensis Li

Guo

Chu

Song

et al. 2023

Journal of Fish Biology

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Brachymystax tsinlingensis Li is a threatened fish species endemic to China. With the problems of environmental factors and seeding breeding diseases, it is important to further improve the efficiency of seeding breeding and the basis of resource protection. This study investigated the acute toxicity of copper, zinc and methylene blue (MB) on hatching, survival, morphology, heart rate (HR) and stress behaviour of B. tsinlingensis. Eggs (diameter: 3.86 ± 0.07 mm, weight: 0.032 ± 0.004 g) of B. tsinlingensis were selected randomly from artificial propagation and developed from eye‐pigmentation‐stage embryos to yolk‐sac stage larvae (length: 12.40 ± 0.02 mm, weight: 0.03 ± 0.001 g) and exposed to different concentrations of Cu, Zn and MB for 144 h in a series of semi‐static toxicity tests. The acute toxicity tests indicated that the 96‐h median lethal concentration (LC50) values of the embryos and larvae were 1.71 and 0.22 mg l−1 for copper and 2.57 and 2.72 mg l−1 for zinc, respectively, whereas the MB LC50 after 144‐h exposure for embryos and larvae were 67.88 and 17.81 mg l−1, respectively. The safe concentrations of copper, zinc and MB were 0.17, 0.77 and 6.79 mg l−1 for embryos and 0.03, 0.03 and 1.78 mg l−1 for larvae, respectively. Copper, zinc and MB treatments with concentrations greater than 1.60, 2.00 and 60.00 mg l−1, respectively, led to a significantly low hatching rate and significantly high embryo mortality (P < 0.05), and copper and MB treatments with concentrations greater than 0.2 and 20 mg l−1 led to significantly high larvae mortality (P < 0.05). Exposure to copper, zinc and MB resulted in developmental defects, including spinal curvature, tail deformity, vascular system anomalies and discolouration. Moreover, copper exposure significantly reduced the HR of larvae (P < 0.05). The embryos exhibited an obvious change in behaviour, converting from the normal behaviour of emerging from the membrane head first to emerging tail first, with probabilities of 34.82%, 14.81% and 49.07% under copper, zinc and MB treatments, respectively. The results demonstrated that the sensitivity of yolk‐sac larvae to copper and MB was significantly higher than that of embryos (P < 0.05) and that B. tsinlingensis embryos or larvae might be more resistant to copper, zinc and MB than other members of the Salmonidae family, which benefits their resource protection and restoration.

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Toxicity of common biocides used in aquaculture to embryos and larvae of Brachymystax tsinlingensis Li

Guo

Chu

Song

et al. 2023

Journal of Fish Biology

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“…Several enzymatic tests, gene expression, toxicity profile, quantification of EC50, bioaccumulative analysis, toxicokinetics study, pathological effects, swimming behavior, or embryo development, among others, are used. Some of species used are: Danio rerio [51,64,[67][68][69][70][71], Larimichthys polyactis [72], Oreochromis niloticus [73], Oryzias melastigma [74,75], Cyprinus carpio [76,77], Poecilia sphenops [78], Bryconops caudomaculatus [79], Oreochromis niloticus [80], Gasterosteus aculeatus [81,82], Pungitius pungitius [82], or Rhamdia quelen [83] among others.…”

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Key Properties for the Toxicity Classification of Chemicals: A Comparison of the REACH Regulation and Scientific Studies Trends

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In the last half century, the improvements in quality of life owing to the development of the chemical industry are indisputable. However, despite global improvements, there has also been a large increase in pollution at the environmental level and this has caused relevant harmful risks not only to wildlife and the environment but also to human health. In response, governments have begun to regulate and control chemicals to prevent environmental pollution. At the European level, REACH (Registration, Evaluation, Authorization, and Restriction of Chemicals) was created with the aim to protect human/animal health and the environment from chemicals. Additionally, this regulation shows the main experimental tests that are needed to classify a chemical from a physicochemical and toxicological point of view. The main objective of this study is to compare the tests or experiments stipulated by the European REACH regulation with the studies carried out by the scientific community. To obtain this comparison, an exhaustive bibliographic review was carried out, analyzing the physicochemical properties and the (eco)toxicological information established by the European REACH regulation and scientific articles published in the Web of Science (WOS) database. The results obtained indicate that, although there are many authors who conducted tests indicated by the regulation, there are others whose essays or studies are not in line with the regulation; this may be because, on many occasions, the purpose of the information to be obtained is quite different.

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A modelling framework to assess multiple metals impacts on marine food webs: Relevance for assessing the ecological implications of deep-sea mining based on a systematic review

Martins

Guerra

Azevedo

et al. 2023

Marine Pollution Bulletin

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Swimming behaviour in two ecologically similar three-spined (Gasterosteus aculeatus L.) and nine-spined sticklebacks (Pungitius pungitius L.): a comparative approach for modelling the toxicity of metal mixtures

Cited by 3 publications

References 131 publications

Toxicity of common biocides used in aquaculture to embryos and larvae of Brachymystax tsinlingensis Li

Toxicity of common biocides used in aquaculture to embryos and larvae of Brachymystax tsinlingensis Li

Key Properties for the Toxicity Classification of Chemicals: A Comparison of the REACH Regulation and Scientific Studies Trends

A modelling framework to assess multiple metals impacts on marine food webs: Relevance for assessing the ecological implications of deep-sea mining based on a systematic review

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