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Title: | Separating natural from anthropogenic causes of impairment in Zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha) populations living across a pollution gradient |
Author: | Faria, Melissa Ochoa, Victoria Blázquez, Mercedes Juan, Maria Fernandes San Lazzara, Raimondo Lacorte, Silvia Soares, Amadeu M. V .M. Barata, Carlos |
Keywords: | Biochemical stress responses Reproductive cycle Total lipids Zebra mussel |
Issue Date: | 2014 |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Abstract: | The relationship between the reproductive stage, the total lipid content and eight broadly used biochemical stress responses were used to assess seasonal and pollutant effects across eleven different zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha) populations from the Ebro and Mijares river basin, Spain. Biochemical markers included superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT), glutathione (GSH), glutathione S transferase (GST), multixenobiotic transporter activity (MXR), lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), lipid peroxidation (LPO) and single strand DNA breaks. Principal component analyses of zebra mussel responses across an annual cycle, showed a marked gonad stage component in total lipid content and biochemical responses. The same response pattern was observed across the populations sampled along a broad geographical and pollution gradient. Population differences on the gonad developmental stage were highly correlated with most of the measured responses and unrelated with the pollution gradient. Conversely, bioaccumulation of organic and inorganic contaminant residues was more related to pollution sources than with the reproductive cycle. These results indicate that the reproductive cycle is the major factor affecting the temporal and spatial variation of the studied markers in D. polymorpha. |
Peer review: | yes |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10773/21235 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.aquatox.2014.03.020 |
ISSN: | 0166-445X |
Appears in Collections: | CESAM - Artigos DBio - Artigos |
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