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- Title
No Effect of Lifelong Methylmercury Exposure on Oxidative Status in Zebra Finches ( Taeniopygia guttata): A Demonstration of Methylmercury-Induced Selection?
- Authors
Finger, John; Botero, Juan; Zhang, Yufeng; Still, Shelby; Hoffman, Alexander; Kavazis, Andreas; Cristol, Daniel; Wada, Haruka
- Abstract
Songbirds exposed to methylmercury (MeHg) often exhibit reduced reproductive success and cognitive abilities. To better understand whether oxidative stress plays a role, we dosed zebra finches ( Taeniopygia guttata) with a contaminated (1.2 ppm MeHg-cysteine) or control diet for their entire lives, including during development in the egg. Levels of antioxidant enzymes [superoxide dismutase (SOD1 and SOD2)], oxidative damage (4-hydroxynonenal; 4-HNE), and antioxidant transcription factors [nuclear factor (erythroid-derived 2)-like 2; Nrf2] were measured in the liver and pectoralis muscle of adults. MeHg treatment did not affect levels of 4-HNE or liver SOD2 or Nrf2. Birds in the MeHg treatment differed significantly from controls in pectoralis SOD1 and Nrf2, and tended to differ in liver SOD1 and pectoralis SOD2; however, we detected no overall pattern of effect of MeHg on oxidative status in dosed finches. We suspect that this is a consequence of the differential survival of MeHg-tolerant birds.
- Subjects
METHYLMERCURY &; the environment; OXIDATIVE stress; ZEBRA finch; SUPEROXIDE dismutase; LIVER; PECTORALIS muscle; FISHES
- Publication
Bulletin of Environmental Contamination & Toxicology, 2017, Vol 99, Issue 6, p668
- ISSN
0007-4861
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00128-017-2202-7