The relationship between lipid composition and seasonal differences in the distribution of PCBs in Mytilus edulis L.

Capuzzo, Judith M.; Farrington, John W.; Rantamäki, Pirjo; Clifford, C. Hovey; Lancaster, Bruce A.; Leavitt, Dale F.; Jia, Xiaoping

doi:10.1016/0141-1136(89)90240-7

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“…These results are similar to those reported by Capuzzo et al (1989) for transplanted mussels (Mytilus edulis) in New Bedford Harbor, where reduced condition indices and lipid accumulation correlated with reduced reproductive effort. Clams at the contaminated sites were not only energetically inferior to clams at clean sites, but also had significantly higher incidence of the disease hematopoietic neoplasia, and of Table 4.19: Life Table Response Experiment Decomposition Matrices.…”

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Life history traits and population processes in marine bivalve molluscs

Ripley¹

1998

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In this thesis, I investigated the how the life history characteristics of the clam Mya arenaria determine the population response to chronic contaminant exposure. To predict the potential responses of a broadcast-spawning life history such as that of M. arenaria, I surveyed the literature on a variety of bivalve species. By incorporating information on growth, survival, and reproduction into matrix population models I could evaluate the relative contributions of these factors to fitness. For broadcastspawners, long life is an important factor enabling them to gamble on rare, large recruitment events. Another important aspect of the broadcast spawning strategy is the possibility of high variation in larval settlement from year to year. I evaluated the role that this variability plays using a stochastic matrix model, and showed that it tends to increase population growth because of the larger size of rarer, successful recruitment events.

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Life history traits and population processes in marine bivalve molluscs

Ripley¹

1998

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“…Previous studies have related the lipid content in the soft tissues of mussels to the concentrations of organic pollutants in the soft tissues (Capuzzo et al 1989;Lee et al 1996;Solé et al 2000). Accordingly, the OCP and PCB data were converted to a lipid weight basis to normalize the concentrations in mussel tissue according to the lipid content prior to the cluster analysis.…”

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The brown mussel Perna perna (L., 1758) as a sentinel species for chlorinated pesticide and dioxin-like compounds

Galvão

Henkelmann

Longo

et al. 2015

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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To contribute to the use of the tropical brown mussel Perna perna as a sentinel species for organochlorine pesticides (OCP) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB), the present study reports data on the toxicokinetics of these compounds in P. perna. Specifically, the authors present data on OCP and PCB bioaccumulation for eight sampling months from three bays (SE Brazil) and two transplant experiments (each 1 month long). Although seasonality is observed in the total lipid content of the whole soft tissue, with summer samples showing higher values, no such seasonality is observed in the OCP and PCB concentrations bioaccumulated by the mussel P. perna. Because no seasonal effect is observed in the annual OCP and PCB concentrations bioaccumulated by P. perna, the use of this species as a sentinel organism to monitor organochlorinated compounds is encouraged. One month of transplantation is not enough to allow the transplanted specimens to reach the concentrations observed in animals reared at the destination site. Nevertheless, P. perna showed a clear tendency to depurate the DDT metabolites p,p'-DDD and p,p'-DDE after 1 month of transplantation.

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“…However, implementing it on a large geographic scale introduces factors such as variations in physiochemical characteristics and food availability in the immersion zones. Although the concentrations measured in the tissue are a function of bioavailable pollutant levels, for some contaminants, the bioaccumulation factor depends on mussel growth in relation to the primary food production or trophic capacity of the environment (Nolan and Dahlgaard 1991) or lipid content (Capuzzo et al 1989). For PAHs, these interferences are not important (Andral et al 2004;Casas 2007) enabling the comparison within sites.…”

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Assessment of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon concentrations in mussels (Mytilus galloprovincialis) from the Western basin of the Mediterranean Sea

Galgani

Martínez-Gómez

Giovanardi

et al. 2010

Environ Monit Assess

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The Mytilos project was carried during the last 3 years (2004-2006) in order to evaluate the level of chemical contamination along the coasts of the western basin of the Mediterranean Sea. Active mussel watch consisted of caged (12 weeks) Mytilus galloprovincialis at 123 stations along the Mediterranean coasts of Spain, France, Italy, North Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco. Results indicated total PAHs levels in the range 22-106 μg/kg dry weight. All large towns or industrial areas from all countries of the basin were affected. Analysis of the origin of contamination demonstrated mainly a pyrolytic origin except in some areas such as Maddalena, Napoli, Alger, and Cornigliano (Genova). Statistical analysis of the PAHs accumulation data enabled the characterisation and ranking of each coastal area. The overall results give scientific and technical basis for large-scale monitoring of the PAH contamination in the entire western Mediterranean basin.

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The relationship between lipid composition and seasonal differences in the distribution of PCBs in Mytilus edulis L.

Cited by 46 publications

References 6 publications

Life history traits and population processes in marine bivalve molluscs

Life history traits and population processes in marine bivalve molluscs

The brown mussel Perna perna (L., 1758) as a sentinel species for chlorinated pesticide and dioxin-like compounds

Assessment of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon concentrations in mussels (Mytilus galloprovincialis) from the Western basin of the Mediterranean Sea

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