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- Title
EFFECTS OF WATER HARDNESS, ALKALINITY, AND DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON ON THE TOXICITY OF COPPER TO THE LATERAL LINE OF DEVELOPING FISH.
- Authors
Linbo, Tiffany L.; Baldwin, David H.; Mcintyre, Jenifer K.; Scholz, Nathaniel L.
- Abstract
Conventional water chemistry parameters such as hardness, alkalinity, and organic carbon are known to affect the acutely lethal toxicity of copper to fish and other aquatic organisms. In the present study, we investigate the influence of these water chemistry parameters on short-term (3 h), sublethal (0-40 μg/L) copper toxicity to the peripheral mechanosensory system of larval zebrafish (Danio rerio) using an in vivo fluorescent marker of lateral line sensory neuron (hair cell) integrity. We studied the influence of hardness (via CaCl2, MgSO4, or both at a 2:1 molar ratio), sodium (via NaHCO3 or NaCl), and organic carbon on copper-induced neurotoxicity to zebrafish lateral line neurons over a range of environmentally relevant water chemistries. For all water parameters but organic carbon, the reductions in copper toxicity, although statistically significant, were small. Increasing organic carbon across a range of environmentally relevant concentrations (0.1-4.3 mg/L) increased the EC50 for copper toxicity (the effective concentration resulting in a 50% loss of hair cells) from approximately 12 μg/L to approximately 50 μg/L. Finally, we used an ionoregulatory-based biotic ligand model to compare copper toxicity mediated by targets in the fish gill and lateral line. Relative to copper toxicity via the gill, we find that individual water chemistry parameters are less influential in terms of reducing cytotoxic impacts to the mechanosensory system.
- Subjects
WATER chemistry; ZEBRA danio; HAIR cells; ZINC enzymes; PHOSPHATASES; AQUATIC organisms; FRESHWATER organisms; AQUATIC biology; SENSORY neurons
- Publication
Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry, 2009, Vol 28, Issue 7, p1455
- ISSN
0730-7268
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1897/08-283.1