INFLUENCE OF WATER QUALITY AND AGE ON NICKEL TOXICITY TO FATHEAD MINNOWS (PIMEPHALES PROMELAS)

10.1897/03-11 ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tham Chung Hoang ◽  
Joseph R. Tomasso ◽  
Stephen J. Klaine
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Pimephales Promelas ◽  
Fathead Minnows ◽  
Nickel Toxicity ◽  
Influence Of Water

INFLUENCE OF MULTIPLE WATER-QUALITY CHARACTERISTICS ON COPPER TOXICITY TO FATHEAD MINNOWS (PIMEPHALES PROMELAS)

2004 ◽  
Vol 23 (12) ◽  
pp. 2900 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine L. Sciera ◽  
J. Jeffery Isely ◽  
Joseph R. Tomasso ◽  
Stephen J. Klaine
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Pimephales Promelas ◽  
Copper Toxicity ◽  
Quality Characteristics ◽  
Fathead Minnows

scholarly journals Differential influences of (±) anatoxin-a on photolocomotor behavior and gene transcription in larval zebrafish and fathead minnows

2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lea M. Lovin ◽  
Sujin Kim ◽  
Raegyn B. Taylor ◽  
Kendall R. Scarlett ◽  
Laura M. Langan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Gene Transcription ◽  
Fathead Minnow ◽  
Target Genes ◽  
Larval Fish ◽  
Pimephales Promelas ◽  
Behavioral Responses ◽  
Aquatic Organisms ◽  
Positive Control ◽  
Fathead Minnows

Abstract Background Though anatoxin-a (antx-a) is a globally important cyanobacterial neurotoxin in inland waters, information on sublethal toxicological responses of aquatic organisms is limited. We examined influences of (±) antx-a (11–3490 µg/L) on photolocomotor behavioral responses and gene transcription associated with neurotoxicity, oxidative stress and hepatotoxicity, in two of the most common alternative vertebrate and fish models, Danio rerio (zebrafish) and Pimephales promelas (fathead minnow). We selected environmentally relevant treatment levels from probabilistic exposure distributions, employed standardized experimental designs, and analytically verified treatment levels using isotope-dilution liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry. Caffeine was examined as a positive control. Results Caffeine influences on fish behavior responses were similar to previous studies. Following exposure to (±) antx-a, no significant photolocomotor effects were observed during light and dark transitions for either species. Though zebrafish behavioral responses profiles were not significantly affected by (±) antx-a at the environmentally relevant treatment levels examined, fathead minnow stimulatory behavior was significantly reduced in the 145–1960 µg/L treatment levels. In addition, no significant changes in transcription of target genes were observed in zebrafish; however, elavl3 and sod1 were upregulated and gst and cyp3a126 were significantly downregulated in fathead minnows. Conclusion We observed differential influences of (±) antx-a on swimming behavior and gene transcription in two of the most common larval fish models employed for prospective and retrospective assessment of environmental contaminants and water quality conditions. Sublethal responses of fathead minnows were consistently more sensitive than zebrafish to this neurotoxin at the environmentally relevant concentrations examined. Future studies are needed to understand such interspecies differences, the enantioselective toxicity of this compound, molecular initiation events within adverse outcome pathways, and subsequent individual and population risks for this emerging water quality threat.

Development of apical pits in chloride cells of the gills of Pimephales promelas after chronic exposure to acid water

1983 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
pp. 462-463
Author(s):  
Richard L. Leino ◽  
Jon G. Anderson ◽  
J. Howard McCormick
Keyword(s):  
Confidence Interval ◽  
Chronic Exposure ◽  
Lake Superior ◽  
Pimephales Promelas ◽  
Chloride Cells ◽  
Fathead Minnows ◽  
Secondary Lamellae ◽  
Untreated Water ◽  
Water Ph ◽  
Flow Through

Groups of 12 fathead minnows were exposed for 129 days to Lake Superior water acidified (pH 5.0, 5.5, 6.0 or 6.5) with reagent grade H2SO4 by means of a multichannel toxicant system for flow-through bioassays. Untreated water (pH 7.5) had the following properties: hardness 45.3 ± 0.3 (95% confidence interval) mg/1 as CaCO3; alkalinity 42.6 ± 0.2 mg/1; Cl- 0.03 meq/1; Na+ 0.05 meq/1; K+ 0.01 meq/1; Ca2+ 0.68 meq/1; Mg2+ 0.26 meq/1; dissolved O2 5.8 ± 0.3 mg/1; free CO2 3.2 ± 0.4 mg/1; T= 24.3 ± 0.1°C. The 1st, 2nd and 3rd gills were subsequently processed for LM (methacrylate), TEM and SEM respectively.Three changes involving chloride cells were correlated with increasing acidity: 1) the appearance of apical pits (figs. 2,5 as compared to figs. 1, 3,4) in chloride cells (about 22% of the chloride cells had pits at pH 5.0); 2) increases in their numbers and 3) increases in the % of these cells in the epithelium of the secondary lamellae.

Acidification effects on macroinvertebrates and fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas) in outdoor experimental channels

1983 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
James A. Zischke ◽  
John W. Arthur ◽  
Kathleen J. Nordlie ◽  
Roger O. Hermanutz ◽  
Douglas A. Standen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pimephales Promelas ◽  
Fathead Minnows
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