Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

12-2017

Publication Title

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Keywords

Deep-sea crustacean, Marine toxicity test, Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon, 1-Methylnapthalene, Passive dosing

ISSN

0730-7268

Volume

36

Issue/No.

12

First Page

3415

Last Page

3423

Abstract

There are few studies that have evaluated hydrocarbon toxicity to vertically migrating deep-sea micronekton. Crustaceans were collected alive using a 9-m2 Tucker trawl with a thermally insulated cod end and returned to the laboratory in 10 °C seawater. Toxicity of the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon 1-methylnaphthalene to Americamysis bahia, Janicella spinacauda, Systellaspis debilis, Sergestes sp., Sergia sp., and a euphausiid species was assessed in a constant exposure toxicity test utilizing a novel passive dosing toxicity testing protocol. The endpoint of the median lethal concentration tests was mortality, and the results revealed high sensitivity of the deep-sea micronekton compared with other species for which these data are available. Threshold concentrations were also used to calculate critical target lipid body burdens using the target lipid model.

Comments

© 2017 The Authors. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of SETAC.

This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.

ORCID ID

0000-0003-1330-1278; 0000-0002-6003-9324

ResearcherID

F-8807-2011

DOI

10.1002/etc.3926

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