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- Title
Assimilation of Elements and Digestion in Grass Shrimp Pre-Exposed to Dietary Mercury.
- Authors
Seebaugh, David; Wallace, William; L'Amoreaux, William; Stewart, Gillian
- Abstract
Grass shrimp Palaemonetes pugio were fed mercury (Hg)-contaminated oligochaetes for 15 days and analyzed for Hg, cadmium (Cd), and carbon assimilation efficiencies (AE) as well as toxicological end points related to digestion. Disproportionate increases in stable Hg concentrations in shrimp did not appear to be related to partitioning to trophically available Hg in worms. Hg AE by pre-exposed shrimp reached a plateau (approximately 53 %), whereas Cd AE varied (approximately 40-60 %) in a manner that was not dose-dependent. Carbon AE did not differ among treatments (approximately 69 %). Gut residence time was not impacted significantly by Hg pre-exposure (grand median approximately 465 min), however, there was a trend between curves showing percentages of individuals with markers in feces over time versus treatment. Feces-elimination rate did not vary with dietary pre-exposure. Extracellular protease activity varied approximately1.9-fold but did not exhibit dose-dependency. pH increased over the range of Hg pre-exposures within the anterior (pH approximately 5.33-6.51) and posterior (pH approximately 5.29-6.25) regions of the cardiac proventriculus and Hg assimilation exhibited a negative relationship to hydrogen ion concentrations. The results of this study indicate that previous Hg ingestion can elicit post-assimilatory impacts on grass shrimp digestive physiology, which may, in turn, influence Hg assimilation during subsequent digestive cycles.
- Subjects
SHRIMPS; MERCURY; METALS in the body; OLIGOCHAETA; PALAEMONETES; DIGESTION
- Publication
Archives of Environmental Contamination & Toxicology, 2012, Vol 63, Issue 2, p230
- ISSN
0090-4341
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00244-012-9760-9