Abstract
<p> There are few studies that have evaluated hydrocarbon toxicity to vertically migrating deep‐sea micronekton. Crustaceans were collected alive using a 9‐m <sup> 2 </sup> 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 <em> Americamysis bahia </em> , <em> Janicella spinacauda </em> , <em> Systellaspis debilis </em> , <em> Sergestes </em> sp., <em> Sergia </em> 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.</p>
| Original language | American English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 3415-3423 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue number | 12 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jul 21 2017 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2017 The Authors. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of SETAC
Funding
Acknowledgment—The present study was made possible by a grant from The Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative to support research entitled “D-TOX: Deep Sea Risk Assessment and Species Sensitivity to WAF, CEWAF and Dispersant.” The authors thank the captain and crew of the R/V F.G. Walton Smith and students M. Morales McDevitt, L. Zarate, R. Hartland, J. Sickles, D. Nichols, and R. Sieber.
| Funders |
|---|
| Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative |
ASJC Scopus Subject Areas
- Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
- Environmental Chemistry
Keywords
- Deep-sea crustacean
- Marine toxicity test
- Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon
- 1-Methylnapthalene
- Passive dosing
- 1-Methylnaphthalene
Disciplines
- Marine Biology
- Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology
- Life Sciences
Fingerprint
Dive into the research topics of 'Short‐Term Toxicity of 1‐Methylnaphthalene to Americamysis bahia and 5 Deep‐Sea Crustaceans'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.Cite this
- APA
- Standard
- Harvard
- Vancouver
- Author
- BIBTEX
- RIS