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Smiley RA, Wagler BL, Edwards WH, Jennings-Gaines J, Luukkonen K, Robbins K, Johnson M, Courtemanch AB, Mong TW, Lutz D, McWhirter D, Malmberg JL, Lowrey B, Monteith KL. Infection-nutrition feedbacks: fat supports pathogen clearance but pathogens reduce fat in a wild mammal. Proc Biol Sci 2024; 291:20240636. [PMID: 39013423 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2024.0636] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2024] [Revised: 05/20/2024] [Accepted: 06/06/2024] [Indexed: 07/18/2024] Open
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Though far less obvious than direct effects (clinical disease or mortality), the indirect influences of pathogens are difficult to estimate but may hold fitness consequences. Here, we disentangle the directional relationships between infection and energetic reserves, evaluating the hypotheses that energetic reserves influence infection status of the host and that infection elicits costs to energetic reserves. Using repeated measures of fat reserves and infection status in individual bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, we documented that fat influenced ability to clear pathogens (Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae) and infection with respiratory pathogens was costly to fat reserves. Costs of infection approached, and in some instances exceeded, costs of rearing offspring to independence in terms of reductions to fat reserves. Fat influenced probability of clearing pathogens, pregnancy and over-winter survival; from an energetic perspective, an animal could survive for up to 23 days on the amount of fat that was lost to high levels of infection. Cost of pathogens may amplify trade-offs between reproduction and survival. In the absence of an active outbreak, the influence of resident pathogens often is overlooked. Nevertheless, the energetic burden of pathogens likely has consequences for fitness and population dynamics, especially when food resources are insufficient.
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- Rachel A Smiley
- Haub School of the Environment and Natural Resources, 804 E Fremont Street, Laramie, WY 82071, USA
- Department of Zoology and Physiology, Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, University of Wyoming, 1000 University Avenue, Laramie, WY 82071, USA
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- Haub School of the Environment and Natural Resources, 804 E Fremont Street, Laramie, WY 82071, USA
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- Department of Wyoming Game and Fish, Wildlife Health Laboratory,1174 Snowy Range Road, Laramie, WY 82072, USA
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- Department of Wyoming Game and Fish, Wildlife Health Laboratory,1174 Snowy Range Road, Laramie, WY 82072, USA
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- Department of Wyoming Game and Fish, Wildlife Health Laboratory,1174 Snowy Range Road, Laramie, WY 82072, USA
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- Department of Wyoming Game and Fish, Wildlife Health Laboratory,1174 Snowy Range Road, Laramie, WY 82072, USA
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- Department of Wyoming Game and Fish, Wildlife Health Laboratory,1174 Snowy Range Road, Laramie, WY 82072, USA
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- Department of Wyoming Game and Fish, 2820 WY-120, Cody, WY 82414, USA
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- Department of Wyoming Game and Fish, 260 Buena Vista Drive, Lander, WY 82520, USA
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- Department of Wyoming Game and Fish, 420 N Cache Street, Jackson, WY 83001, USA
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- Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Wyoming, 1174 Snowy Range Road, Laramie, WY 82070, USA
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- US Geological Survey, Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center, 2327 University Way, Bozeman, MT 59715, USA
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- Haub School of the Environment and Natural Resources, 804 E Fremont Street, Laramie, WY 82071, USA
- Department of Zoology and Physiology, Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, University of Wyoming, 1000 University Avenue, Laramie, WY 82071, USA
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Sowa G, Bednarska AJ, Laskowski R. Mortality Pattern of Poecilus cupreus Beetles after Repeated Topical Exposure to Insecticide─Stochastic Death or Individual Tolerance? ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2024; 58:1854-1864. [PMID: 38251653 PMCID: PMC10832044 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.3c08031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2023] [Revised: 12/11/2023] [Accepted: 01/09/2024] [Indexed: 01/23/2024]
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The mortality of organisms exposed to toxicants has been attributed to either stochastic processes or individual tolerance (IT), leading to the stochastic death (SD) and IT models. While the IT model follows the principles of natural selection, the relevance of the SD model has been debated. To clarify why the idea of stochastic mortality has found its way into ecotoxicology, we investigated the mortality of Poecilus cupreus (Linnaeus, 1758) beetles from pesticide-treated oilseed rape (OSR) fields and unsprayed meadows, subjected to repeated insecticide treatments. We analyzed the mortality with the Kaplan-Meier estimator and general unified threshold model for survival (GUTS), which integrates SD and IT assumptions. The beetles were exposed three times, ca. monthly, to the same dose of Proteus 110 OD insecticide containing thiacloprid and deltamethrin, commonly used in the OSR fields. Kaplan-Meier analysis showed that the mortality of beetles from meadows was much higher after the first treatment than after the next two, indicating the IT model. Beetles from the OSR displayed approximately constant mortality after the first and second treatments, consistent with the SD model. GUTS analysis did not conclusively identify the better model, with the IT being marginally better for beetles from meadows and the SD better for beetles from OSR fields.
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- Grzegorz Sowa
- Institute of Environmental
Sciences, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 7, 30-387 Kraków, Poland
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- Institute of Nature Conservation, Polish Academy of Sciences, A. Mickiewicza 33, 31-120 Kraków, Poland
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- Institute of Environmental
Sciences, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 7, 30-387 Kraków, Poland
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White CR, Marshall DJ. How and Why Does Metabolism Scale with Body Mass? Physiology (Bethesda) 2023; 38:0. [PMID: 37698354 DOI: 10.1152/physiol.00015.2023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2023] [Revised: 09/08/2023] [Accepted: 09/08/2023] [Indexed: 09/13/2023] Open
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Most explanations for the relationship between body size and metabolism invoke physical constraints; such explanations are evolutionarily inert, limiting their predictive capacity. Contemporary approaches to metabolic rate and life history lack the pluralism of foundational work. Here, we call for reforging of the lost links between optimization approaches and physiology.
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- Craig R White
- School of Biological Sciences and Centre for Geometric Biology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences and Centre for Geometric Biology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
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Mauritsson K, Jonsson T. A new flexible model for maintenance and feeding expenses that improves description of individual growth in insects. Sci Rep 2023; 13:16751. [PMID: 37798309 PMCID: PMC10556006 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-43743-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2023] [Accepted: 09/27/2023] [Indexed: 10/07/2023] Open
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Metabolic theories in ecology interpret ecological patterns at different levels through the lens of metabolism, typically applying allometric scaling to describe energy use. This requires a sound theory for individual metabolism. Common mechanistic growth models, such as 'von Bertalanffy', 'dynamic energy budgets' and the 'ontogenetic growth model' lack some potentially important aspects, especially regarding regulation of somatic maintenance. We develop a model for ontogenetic growth of animals, applicable to ad libitum and food limited conditions, based on an energy balance that expresses growth as the net result of assimilation and metabolic costs for maintenance, feeding and food processing. The most important contribution is the division of maintenance into a 'non-negotiable' and a 'negotiable' part, potentially resulting in hyperallometric scaling of maintenance and downregulated maintenance under food restriction. The model can also account for effects of body composition and type of growth at the cellular level. Common mechanistic growth models often fail to fully capture growth of insects. However, our model was able to capture empirical growth patterns observed in house crickets.
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- Karl Mauritsson
- Ecological Modelling Group, School of Bioscience, University of Skövde, Skövde, Sweden.
- Ecological and Environmental Modeling, Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden.
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- Ecological Modelling Group, School of Bioscience, University of Skövde, Skövde, Sweden
- Ecological and Environmental Modeling, Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
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Kaare-Rasmussen JO, Moeller HV, Pfab F. Modeling food dependent symbiosis in Exaiptasia pallida. Ecol Modell 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2023.110325] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/19/2023]
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Dupont L, Le Mézo P, Aumont O, Bopp L, Clerc C, Ethé C, Maury O. High trophic level feedbacks on global ocean carbon uptake and marine ecosystem dynamics under climate change. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY 2023; 29:1545-1556. [PMID: 36516354 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.16558] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2022] [Accepted: 11/27/2022] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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Despite recurrent emphasis on their ecological and economic roles, the importance of high trophic levels (HTLs) on ocean carbon dynamics, through passive (fecal pellet production, carcasses) and active (vertical migration) processes, is still largely unexplored, notably under climate change scenarios. In addition, HTLs impact the ecosystem dynamics through top-down effects on lower trophic levels, which might change under anthropogenic influence. Here we compare two simulations of a global biogeochemical-ecosystem model with and without feedbacks from large marine animals. We show that these large marine animals affect the evolution of low trophic level biomasses, hence net primary production and most certainly ecosystem equilibrium, but seem to have little influence on the 21st-century anthropogenic carbon uptake under the RCP8.5 scenario. These results provide new insights regarding the expectations for trophic amplification of climate change through the marine trophic chain and regarding the necessity to explicitly represent marine animals in Earth System Models.
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- Léonard Dupont
- Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (LMD), IPSL, École Normale Supérieure, Université PSL, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France
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- Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (LMD), IPSL, École Normale Supérieure, Université PSL, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France
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- Laboratoire d'Océanographie et du Climat: Expérimentation et Approches Numériques (LOCEAN), IPSL, CNRS/UPMC/IRD/MNHN, Paris, France
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- Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (LMD), IPSL, École Normale Supérieure, Université PSL, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France
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- Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (LMD), IPSL, École Normale Supérieure, Université PSL, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France
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- IRD (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement), UMR 248 MARBEC (IRD-IFREMER-CNRS-Université Montpellier), Montpellier, France
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Brown AL, Pfab F, Baxter EC, Detmer AR, Moeller HV, Nisbet RM, Cunning R. Analysis of a mechanistic model of corals in association with multiple symbionts: within-host competition and recovery from bleaching. CONSERVATION PHYSIOLOGY 2022; 10:coac066. [PMID: 36247693 PMCID: PMC9558299 DOI: 10.1093/conphys/coac066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2021] [Revised: 07/25/2022] [Accepted: 09/09/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Coral reefs are increasingly experiencing stressful conditions, such as high temperatures, that cause corals to undergo bleaching, a process where they lose their photosynthetic algal symbionts. Bleaching threatens both corals' survival and the health of the reef ecosystems they create. One possible mechanism for corals to resist bleaching is through association with stress-tolerant symbionts, which are resistant to bleaching but may be worse partners in mild conditions. Some corals have been found to associate with multiple symbiont species simultaneously, which potentially gives them access to the benefits of both stress-sensitive and -tolerant symbionts. However, within-host competition between symbionts may lead to competitive exclusion of one partner, and the consequences of associating with multiple partners simultaneously are not well understood. We modify a mechanistic model of coral-algal symbiosis to investigate the effect of environmental conditions on within-host competitive dynamics between stress-sensitive and -tolerant symbionts and the effect of access to a tolerant symbiont on the dynamics of recovery from bleaching. We found that the addition of a tolerant symbiont can increase host survival and recovery from bleaching in high-light conditions. Competitive exclusion of the tolerant symbiont occurred slowly at intermediate light levels. Interestingly, there were some cases of post-bleaching competitive exclusion after the tolerant symbiont had helped the host recover.
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- Alexandra Lynne Brown
- Corresponding author: Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA. E-mail:
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
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- Daniel P. Haerther Center for Conservation and Research, John G. Shedd Aquarium, Chicago, IL 60605, USA
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Russo SE, Ledder G, Muller EB, Nisbet RM. Dynamic Energy Budget models: fertile ground for understanding resource allocation in plants in a changing world. CONSERVATION PHYSIOLOGY 2022; 10:coac061. [PMID: 36128259 PMCID: PMC9477497 DOI: 10.1093/conphys/coac061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2022] [Revised: 06/08/2022] [Accepted: 08/17/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Climate change is having dramatic effects on the diversity and distribution of species. Many of these effects are mediated by how an organism's physiological patterns of resource allocation translate into fitness through effects on growth, survival and reproduction. Empirically, resource allocation is challenging to measure directly and so has often been approached using mathematical models, such as Dynamic Energy Budget (DEB) models. The fact that all plants require a very similar set of exogenous resources, namely light, water and nutrients, integrates well with the DEB framework in which a small number of variables and processes linked through pathways represent an organism's state as it changes through time. Most DEB theory has been developed in reference to animals and microorganisms. However, terrestrial vascular plants differ from these organisms in fundamental ways that make resource allocation, and the trade-offs and feedbacks arising from it, particularly fundamental to their life histories, but also challenging to represent using existing DEB theory. Here, we describe key features of the anatomy, morphology, physiology, biochemistry, and ecology of terrestrial vascular plants that should be considered in the development of a generic DEB model for plants. We then describe possible approaches to doing so using existing DEB theory and point out features that may require significant development for DEB theory to accommodate them. We end by presenting a generic DEB model for plants that accounts for many of these key features and describing gaps that would need to be addressed for DEB theory to predict the responses of plants to climate change. DEB models offer a powerful and generalizable framework for modelling resource allocation in terrestrial vascular plants, and our review contributes a framework for expansion and development of DEB theory to address how plants respond to anthropogenic change.
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- Sabrina E Russo
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska, 1104 T Street Lincoln, Nebraska 68588-0118, USA
- Center for Plant Science Innovation, University of Nebraska, 1901 Vine Street, N300 Beadle Center, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588-0660, USA
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- Department of Mathematics, University of Nebraska, 203 Avery Hall, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588-0130, USA
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- Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
- Institut für Biologische Analytik und Consulting IBACON GmbH, Arheilger Weg 17 Roß dorf, Hesse D-64380, Germany
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- Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
- Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
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Wang MC, Furukawa F, Wang CW, Peng HW, Lin CC, Lin TH, Tseng YC. Multigenerational inspections of environmental thermal perturbations promote metabolic trade-offs in developmental stages of tropical fish. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION (BARKING, ESSEX : 1987) 2022; 308:119605. [PMID: 35691444 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2022.119605] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2022] [Revised: 05/16/2022] [Accepted: 06/08/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Global warming both reduces global temperature variance and increases the frequency of extreme weather events. In response to these ambient perturbations, animals may be subject to trans- or intra-generational phenotype modifications that help to maintain homeostasis and fitness. Here, we show how temperature-associated transgenerational plasticity in tilapia affects metabolic trade-offs during developmental stages under a global warming scenario. Tropical tilapia reared at a stable temperature of 27 °C for a decade were divided into two temperature-experience groups for four generations of breeding. Each generation of one group was exposed to a single 15 °C cold-shock experience during its lifetime (cold-experienced CE group), and the other group was kept stably at 27 °C throughout their lifetimes (cold-naïve CN group). The offspring at early life stages from the CE and CN tilapia were then assessed by metabolomics-based profiling, and the results implied that parental cold-experience might affect energy provision during reproduction. Furthermore, at early life stages, progeny may be endowed with metabolic traits that help the animals cope with ambient temperature perturbations. This study also applied the feature rescaling and Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection (UMAP) to visualize metabolic dynamics, and the result could effectively decompose the complex omic-based datasets to represent the energy trade-off variability. For example, the carbohydrate to free amino acid conversion and enhanced compensatory features appeared to be hypothermic-responsive traits. These multigenerational metabolic effects suggest that the tropical ectothermic tilapia may exhibit transgenerational phenotype plasticity, which could optimize energy allocation under ambient temperature challenges. Knowledge about such metabolism-related transgenerational plasticity effects in ectothermic aquatic species may allow us to better predict how adaptive mechanisms will affect fish populations in a climate with narrow temperature variation and frequent extreme weather events.
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- Min-Chen Wang
- Marine Research Station, Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology, Academia Sinica, I-Lan County, Taiwan; Biodiversity Program, Taiwan International Graduate Program, Academia Sinica and National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei City, Taiwan; Department of Life Science, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei City, Taiwan
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- School of Marine Biosciences, Kitasato University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei City, Taiwan
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- Marine Research Station, Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology, Academia Sinica, I-Lan County, Taiwan
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- Biomedical Translation Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei City, Taiwan
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- Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei City, Taiwan
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- Marine Research Station, Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology, Academia Sinica, I-Lan County, Taiwan.
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Dong S, Liu D, Zhu B, Yu L, Shan H, Wang F. A Dynamic Energy Budget Model for Kuruma Shrimp Penaeus japonicus: Parameterization and Application in Integrated Marine Pond Aquaculture. Animals (Basel) 2022; 12:ani12141828. [PMID: 35883375 PMCID: PMC9311514 DOI: 10.3390/ani12141828] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2022] [Revised: 07/15/2022] [Accepted: 07/15/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Individual growth models can form the basis of population dynamics assessment and ecosystem model construction. In order to provide a basic module for an ecosystem model of an integrated marine aquaculture pond, an individual growth model was constructed for kuruma shrimp (Penaeus japonicus) based on dynamic energy budget (DEB) theory. The model was first parameterized based on a covariation method using the Add-my-Pet (AmP) procedure. The parametric estimation model underestimated the ultimate abdominal length for female shrimp, and the predicted values of other zero-variate parameters were generally consistent with observed values. The relative errors of the predicted and observed values of the univariate data set within three geographical regions showed acceptable goodness of fit. Parameter estimation achieved an overall goodness of fit with a mean relative error of 0.048 and a symmetric mean squared error of 0.066. A DEB model was constructed using the estimated parameters, and the goodness-of-fit indicators (R square, mean bias and absolute and relative root mean square error) showed that the model was able to reproduce the growth of kuruma shrimp in terms of total length and wet weight with high accuracy. The results provide data to support the subsequent development of integrated aquaculture management at the ecosystem level.
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- Shipeng Dong
- The Key Laboratory of Mariculture, Ministry of Education, Ocean University of China, 5 Yushan Road, Qingdao 266003, China; (S.D.); (D.L.); (B.Z.); (L.Y.); (H.S.)
- Function Laboratory for Marine Fisheries Science and Food Production Processes, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, 1 Wenhai Road, Qingdao 266003, China
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- The Key Laboratory of Mariculture, Ministry of Education, Ocean University of China, 5 Yushan Road, Qingdao 266003, China; (S.D.); (D.L.); (B.Z.); (L.Y.); (H.S.)
- Function Laboratory for Marine Fisheries Science and Food Production Processes, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, 1 Wenhai Road, Qingdao 266003, China
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- The Key Laboratory of Mariculture, Ministry of Education, Ocean University of China, 5 Yushan Road, Qingdao 266003, China; (S.D.); (D.L.); (B.Z.); (L.Y.); (H.S.)
- Function Laboratory for Marine Fisheries Science and Food Production Processes, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, 1 Wenhai Road, Qingdao 266003, China
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- The Key Laboratory of Mariculture, Ministry of Education, Ocean University of China, 5 Yushan Road, Qingdao 266003, China; (S.D.); (D.L.); (B.Z.); (L.Y.); (H.S.)
- Function Laboratory for Marine Fisheries Science and Food Production Processes, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, 1 Wenhai Road, Qingdao 266003, China
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- The Key Laboratory of Mariculture, Ministry of Education, Ocean University of China, 5 Yushan Road, Qingdao 266003, China; (S.D.); (D.L.); (B.Z.); (L.Y.); (H.S.)
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- The Key Laboratory of Mariculture, Ministry of Education, Ocean University of China, 5 Yushan Road, Qingdao 266003, China; (S.D.); (D.L.); (B.Z.); (L.Y.); (H.S.)
- Function Laboratory for Marine Fisheries Science and Food Production Processes, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, 1 Wenhai Road, Qingdao 266003, China
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Jager T, Malzahn AM, Hagemann A, Hansen BH. Testing a simple energy-budget model for yolk-feeding stages of cleaner fish. Ecol Modell 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2022.110005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Pfab F, Brown AL, Detmer AR, Baxter EC, Moeller HV, Cunning R, Nisbet RM. Timescale separation and models of symbiosis: state space reduction, multiple attractors and initialization. CONSERVATION PHYSIOLOGY 2022; 10:coac026. [PMID: 35539007 PMCID: PMC9073712 DOI: 10.1093/conphys/coac026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2021] [Revised: 02/18/2022] [Accepted: 03/28/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Dynamic Energy Budget models relate whole organism processes such as growth, reproduction and mortality to suborganismal metabolic processes. Much of their potential derives from extensions of the formalism to describe the exchange of metabolic products between organisms or organs within a single organism, for example the mutualism between corals and their symbionts. Without model simplification, such models are at risk of becoming parameter-rich and hence impractical. One natural simplification is to assume that some metabolic processes act on 'fast' timescales relative to others. A common strategy for formulating such models is to assume that 'fast' processes equilibrate immediately, while 'slow' processes are described by ordinary differential equations. This strategy can bring a subtlety with it. What if there are multiple, interdependent fast processes that have multiple equilibria, so that additional information is needed to unambiguously specify the model dynamics? This situation can easily arise in contexts where an organism or community can persist in a 'healthy' or an 'unhealthy' state with abrupt transitions between states possible. To approach this issue, we offer the following: (a) a method to unambiguously complete implicitly defined models by adding hypothetical 'fast' state variables; (b) an approach for minimizing the number of additional state variables in such models, which can simplify the numerical analysis and give insights into the model dynamics; and (c) some implications of the new approach that are of practical importance for model dynamics, e.g. on the bistability of flux dynamics and the effect of different initialization choices on model outcomes. To demonstrate those principles, we use a simplified model for root-shoot dynamics of plants and a related model for the interactions between corals and endosymbiotic algae that describes coral bleaching and recovery.
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- Ferdinand Pfab
- Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
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- Daniel P. Haerther Center for Conservation and Research, G. Shedd Aquarium, 1200 S. DuSable Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605, USA
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
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Jager T, Trijau M, Sherborne N, Goussen B, Ashauer R. Considerations for using reproduction data in toxicokinetic-toxicodynamic modeling. INTEGRATED ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT 2022; 18:479-487. [PMID: 34110085 DOI: 10.1002/ieam.4476] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2021] [Revised: 06/01/2021] [Accepted: 06/07/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Toxicokinetic-toxicodynamic (TKTD) modeling is essential to make sense of the time dependence of toxic effects, and to interpret and predict consequences of time-varying exposure. These advantages have been recognized in the regulatory arena, especially for environmental risk assessment of pesticides, where time-varying exposure is the norm. We critically evaluate the link between the modeled variables in TKTD models and the observations from laboratory ecotoxicity tests. For the endpoint reproduction, this link is far from trivial. The relevant TKTD models for sublethal effects are based on dynamic energy budget (DEB) theory, which specifies a continuous investment flux into reproduction. In contrast, experimental tests score egg or offspring release by the mother. The link between model and data is particularly troublesome when a species reproduces in discrete clutches and, even more so, when eggs are incubated in the mother's brood pouch (and release of neonates is scored in the test). This situation is quite common among aquatic invertebrates (e.g., cladocerans, amphipods, mysids), including many popular test species. In this discussion paper, we treat these and other issues with reproduction data, reflect on their potential impact on DEB-TKTD analysis, and provide preliminary recommendations to correct them. Both modelers and users of model results need to be aware of these complications, as ignoring them could easily lead to unnecessary failure of DEB-TKTD models during calibration, or when validating them against independent data for other exposure scenarios. Integr Environ Assess Manag 2022;18:479-487. © 2021 SETAC.
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- Syngenta, Jealott's Hill International Research Centre, Berkshire, UK
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- Syngenta Crop Protection AG, Basel, Switzerland
- Department of Environment and Geography, University of York, Heslington, York, UK
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Astuto MC, Di Nicola MR, Tarazona JV, Rortais A, Devos Y, Liem AKD, Kass GEN, Bastaki M, Schoonjans R, Maggiore A, Charles S, Ratier A, Lopes C, Gestin O, Robinson T, Williams A, Kramer N, Carnesecchi E, Dorne JLCM. In Silico Methods for Environmental Risk Assessment: Principles, Tiered Approaches, Applications, and Future Perspectives. Methods Mol Biol 2022; 2425:589-636. [PMID: 35188648 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-1960-5_23] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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This chapter aims to introduce the reader to the basic principles of environmental risk assessment of chemicals and highlights the usefulness of tiered approaches within weight of evidence approaches in relation to problem formulation i.e., data availability, time and resource availability. In silico models are then introduced and include quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) models, which support filling data gaps when no chemical property or ecotoxicological data are available. In addition, biologically-based models can be applied in more data rich situations and these include generic or species-specific models such as toxicokinetic-toxicodynamic models, dynamic energy budget models, physiologically based models, and models for ecosystem hazard assessment i.e. species sensitivity distributions and ultimately for landscape assessment i.e. landscape-based modeling approaches. Throughout this chapter, particular attention is given to provide practical examples supporting the application of such in silico models in real-world settings. Future perspectives are discussed to address environmental risk assessment in a more holistic manner particularly for relevant complex questions, such as the risk assessment of multiple stressors and the development of harmonized approaches to ultimately quantify the relative contribution and impact of single chemicals, multiple chemicals and multiple stressors on living organisms.
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- European Food Safety Authority, Parma, Italy
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- European Food Safety Authority, Parma, Italy
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- Center for Computational Toxicology and Exposure, Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA), Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
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- Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences (IRAS), Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences (IRAS), Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Tosca EM, Gauderat G, Fouliard S, Burbridge M, Chenel M, Magni P. Modeling restoration of gefitinib efficacy by co-administration of MET inhibitors in an EGFR inhibitor-resistant NSCLC xenograft model: A tumor-in-host DEB-based approach. CPT-PHARMACOMETRICS & SYSTEMS PHARMACOLOGY 2021; 10:1396-1411. [PMID: 34708556 PMCID: PMC8592518 DOI: 10.1002/psp4.12710] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2021] [Revised: 08/02/2021] [Accepted: 08/17/2021] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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MET receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) can restore sensitivity to gefitinib, a TKI targeting epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), and promote apoptosis in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) models resistant to gefitinib treatment in vitro and in vivo. Several novel MET inhibitors are currently under study in different phases of development. In this work, a novel tumor-in-host modeling approach, based on the Dynamic Energy Budget (DEB) theory, was proposed and successfully applied to the context of poly-targeted combination therapies. The population DEB-based tumor growth inhibition (TGI) model well-described the effect of gefitinib and of two MET inhibitors, capmatinib and S49076, on both tumor growth and host body weight when administered alone or in combination in an NSCLC mice model involving the gefitinib-resistant tumor line HCC827ER1. The introduction of a synergistic effect in the combination DEB-TGI model allowed to capture gefitinib anticancer activity enhanced by the co-administered MET inhibitor, providing also a quantitative evaluation of the synergistic drug interaction. The model-based comparison of the two MET inhibitors highlighted that S49076 exhibited a greater anticancer effect as well as a greater ability in restoring sensitivity to gefitinib than the competitor capmatinib. In summary, the DEB-based tumor-in-host framework proposed here can be applied to routine combination xenograft experiments, providing an assessment of drug interactions and contributing to rank investigated compounds and to select the optimal combinations, based on both tumor and host body weight dynamics. Thus, the combination tumor-in-host DEB-TGI model can be considered a useful tool in the preclinical development and a significant advance toward better characterization of combination therapies.
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- Elena M. Tosca
- Laboratory of Bioinformatics, Mathematical Modelling and Synthetic BiologyDepartment of ElectricalComputer and Biomedical EngineeringUniversità degli Studi di PaviaPaviaItaly
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- Clinical Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacometrics DivisionServierSuresnesFrance
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- Clinical Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacometrics DivisionServierSuresnesFrance
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- Center for Therapeutic Innovation in OncologyServierSuresnesFrance
- Present address:
Engitix therapeuticsLondonUK
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- Clinical Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacometrics DivisionServierSuresnesFrance
- Present address:
Pharmetheus ABUppsalaSweden
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- Laboratory of Bioinformatics, Mathematical Modelling and Synthetic BiologyDepartment of ElectricalComputer and Biomedical EngineeringUniversità degli Studi di PaviaPaviaItaly
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Potter T, Reznick DN, Coulson T. Substantial intraspecific variation in energy budgets: Biology or artefact? Funct Ecol 2021. [DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.13847] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Tomos Potter
- Department of Zoology University of Oxford Oxford UK
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- Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology University of California Riverside CA USA
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- Department of Zoology University of Oxford Oxford UK
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Borges S, Alkassab AT, Collison E, Hinarejos S, Jones B, McVey E, Roessink I, Steeger T, Sultan M, Wassenberg J. Overview of the testing and assessment of effects of microbial pesticides on bees: strengths, challenges and perspectives. APIDOLOGIE 2021; 52:1256-1277. [PMID: 36712810 PMCID: PMC9881582 DOI: 10.1007/s13592-021-00900-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2021] [Revised: 09/21/2021] [Accepted: 09/24/2021] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Currently, there is a growing interest in developing biopesticides and increasing their share in the plant protection market as sustainable tools in integrated pest management (IPM). Therefore, it is important that regulatory requirements are consistent and thorough in consideration of biopesticides' unique properties. While microbial pesticides generally have a lower risk profile, they present special challenges in non-target organism testing and risk assessment since, in contrast to chemical pesticides, their modes of action include infectivity and pathogenicity rather than toxicity alone. For this reason, non-target organism testing guidelines designed for conventional chemical pesticides are not necessarily directly applicable to microbial pesticides. Many stakeholders have recognised the need for improvements in the guidance available for testing microbial pesticides with honey bees, particularly given the increasing interest in development and registration of microbial pesticides and concerns over risks to pollinators. This paper provides an overview of the challenges with testing and assessment of the effects of microbial pesticides on honey bees (Apis mellifera), which have served as a surrogate for both Apis and non-Apis bees, and provides a foundation toward developing improved testing methods.
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- Shannon Borges
- Office of Pesticide Programs, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, USA
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- Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, Institute for Bee Protection, Julius Kühn-Institut (JKI), Braunschweig, Germany
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- Dutch Board for the Authorisation of Plant Protection Products and Biocides (Ctgb), Ede, The Netherlands
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- Wageningen Environmental Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Office of Pesticide Programs, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, USA
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- Dutch Board for the Authorisation of Plant Protection Products and Biocides (Ctgb), Ede, The Netherlands
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Li Z, Zhou H, Liu Y, Zhan J, Li W, Yang K, Yi X. Acute and chronic combined effect of polystyrene microplastics and dibutyl phthalate on the marine copepod Tigriopus japonicus. CHEMOSPHERE 2020; 261:127711. [PMID: 32731021 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2020.127711] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2020] [Revised: 07/02/2020] [Accepted: 07/12/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Dibutyl phthalate (DBP) is a commonly used additive in plastic products, so it may potentially coexist with microplastics (MPs) in marine environment. The ingestion of MPs might affect the accumulation of DBP in marine organisms. In this study, the marine copepod Tigriopus japonicus was applied to study the combined effect of DBP and polystyrene microplastics (mPS) on the copepod through both acute mortality tests and chronic reproduction tests. The LC50 of DBP was 1.23 mg L-1 (95% CI: 1.11-1.35 mg L-1), while exposure to mPS didn't have significant lethal effect on the copepods. Adsorption to MPs led to decreased bioavailability of DBP, resulting in decreased toxicity of DBP. In contrast to the results of acute toxicity tests, DBP didn't affect the reproduction of the copepods at lower exposure concentrations, while mPS reduced the number of nauplii and extended the time to hatch. Similar as acute toxicity tests, antagonistic interaction was observed for mPS and DBP in chronic reproduction tests, which might be attributed to promoted aggregation of mPS at presence of DBP. Overall, antagonistic toxicity effect between the two pollutants was observed for both acute and chronic tests, but the mechanisms of the interaction between DBP and mPS were different. Results of the present study highlighted the importance of long-term exposure when evaluating the toxic effect of MPs and their combined effect with other chemicals.
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- Zhaochuan Li
- School of Ocean Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Panjin, 124221, China
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- School of Ocean Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Panjin, 124221, China
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- School of Ocean Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Panjin, 124221, China
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- School of Ocean Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Panjin, 124221, China
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- School of Ocean Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Panjin, 124221, China
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- School of Ocean Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Panjin, 124221, China
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- School of Ocean Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Panjin, 124221, China.
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Kooi B, Kooijman S. A cohort projection method to follow deb-structured populations with periodic, synchronized and iteroparous reproduction. Ecol Modell 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2020.109298] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Stubbs JL, Marn N, Vanderklift MA, Fossette S, Mitchell NJ. Simulated growth and reproduction of green turtles (Chelonia mydas) under climate change and marine heatwave scenarios. Ecol Modell 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2020.109185] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Zebral YD, da Silva Fonseca J, Roza M, Costa PG, Robaldo RB, Bianchini A. Combining elevated temperature with waterborne copper: Impacts on the energy metabolism of the killifish Poecilia vivipara. CHEMOSPHERE 2020; 253:126631. [PMID: 32302917 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2020.126631] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2019] [Revised: 03/24/2020] [Accepted: 03/25/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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We have previously demonstrated in a companion work that acclimation to 28 °C potentiated waterborne copper (Cu) toxic effects in Poecilia vivipara through oxidative stress-related processes. In the present study, we hypothesized that these results were related to kinetic metabolic adjustments in enzymes from aerobic and anaerobic pathways. To test this, P. vivipara was acclimated to two temperatures (22 °C or 28 °C) for three weeks and then exposed to Cu (control, 9 or 20 μg/L) for 96 h. The activity of enzymes from glycolysis (pyruvate kinase [PK] and lactate dehydrogenase [LDH]), Krebs cycle (citrate synthase [CS]) and the electron transport chain system (ETS) were assessed in gills, liver and muscle. Interactive effects were only seen for hepatic LDH activity, as both metal exposure and heat stress, combined or not, inhibited this enzyme, showing a suppression in anaerobic pathways. Conversely, a Cu main effect was present in the liver, expressed as an elevation in ETS activity, showing an enhancement in hepatic aerobic metabolism likely related with the very energy-demanding process of metal detoxification. Moreover, this study shows that P. vivipara has a remarkable ability to compensate heat stress in terms of energy metabolism, as we could not observe acclimation temperature effects for most of the cases. Nonetheless, a tissue-dependent effect of elevated temperature was observed, as we could observe an inhibition in muscular CS activity. Finally, it is concluded that kinetic adjustments in terms of the energy metabolism are not related with the temperature-dependent elevation of Cu toxicity in P. vivipara as we previously hypothesized.
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- Yuri Dornelles Zebral
- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Fisiológicas, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, 96203-900, Rio Grande, RS, Brazil.
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Fisiológicas, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, 96203-900, Rio Grande, RS, Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Fisiológicas, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, 96203-900, Rio Grande, RS, Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Fisiológicas, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, 96203-900, Rio Grande, RS, Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia Animal, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, 96010-970, Capão do Leão, RS, Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Fisiológicas, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, 96203-900, Rio Grande, RS, Brazil
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Ledder G, Russo SE, Muller EB, Peace A, Nisbet RM. Local control of resource allocation is sufficient to model optimal dynamics in syntrophic systems. THEOR ECOL-NETH 2020. [DOI: 10.1007/s12080-020-00464-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Lika K, Augustine S, Kooijman SA. The use of augmented loss functions for estimating dynamic energy budget parameters. Ecol Modell 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2020.109110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Kooijman SA, Lika K, Augustine S, Marn N, Kooi BW. The energetic basis of population growth in animal kingdom. Ecol Modell 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2020.109055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Rastetter EB, Kwiatkowski BL. An approach to modeling resource optimization for substitutable and interdependent resources. Ecol Modell 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2020.109033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Louati D, BenMiled S, Saoud NBB. HermaDEB: An evolutionary IBM for energy allocation in hermaphrodites. Ecol Modell 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2020.109008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Kingsbury KM, Gillanders BM, Booth DJ, Coni EOC, Nagelkerken I. Range-extending coral reef fishes trade-off growth for maintenance of body condition in cooler waters. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2020; 703:134598. [PMID: 31767323 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.134598] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2019] [Revised: 09/20/2019] [Accepted: 09/20/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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As ocean waters warm due to climate change, tropical species are shifting their ranges poleward to remain within their preferred thermal niches. As a result, novel communities are emerging in which tropical species interact with local temperate species, competing for similar resources, such as food and habitat. To understand how range-extending coral reef fish species perform along their leading edges when invading temperate ecosystems, we studied proxies of their fitness, including somatic growth (length increase), feeding rates, and body condition, along a 730-km latitudinal gradient situated in one of the global warming hotspots. We also studied co-occurring temperate species to assess how their fitness is affected along their trailing edges under ocean warming. We predicted that tropical fishes would experience reduced performance as they enter novel communities with suboptimal environmental conditions. Our study shows that although tropical fish maintain their body condition (based on three proxies) and stomach fullness across all invaded temperate latitudes, they exhibit decreased in situ growth rates, activity levels, and feeding rates in their novel temperate environment, likely a result of lower metabolic rates in cooler waters. We posit that tropical fishes face a growth-maintenance trade-off under the initial phases of ocean warming (i.e. at their leading edges), allowing them to maintain their body condition in cooler temperate waters but at the cost of slower growth. Temperate fish exhibited no distinct patterns in body condition and performance along the natural temperature gradient studied. However, in the face of future climate change, when metabolism is no longer stymied by low water temperatures, tropical range-extending species are likely to approach their native-range growth rates along their leading edges, ultimately leading to increased competitive interactions with local species in temperate ecosystems.
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- Kelsey M Kingsbury
- Southern Seas Ecology Laboratories, School of Biological Sciences, and The Environment Institute, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide SA 5005, Australia
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- Southern Seas Ecology Laboratories, School of Biological Sciences, and The Environment Institute, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide SA 5005, Australia
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- Fish Ecology Lab, School of Life Sciences, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, NSW 2007, Australia
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- Southern Seas Ecology Laboratories, School of Biological Sciences, and The Environment Institute, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide SA 5005, Australia
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- Southern Seas Ecology Laboratories, School of Biological Sciences, and The Environment Institute, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide SA 5005, Australia.
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Tosca EM, Rocchetti M, Pesenti E, Magni P. A Tumor-in-Host DEB-Based Approach for Modeling Cachexia and Bevacizumab Resistance. Cancer Res 2019; 80:820-831. [PMID: 31818849 DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-19-0811] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2019] [Revised: 08/30/2019] [Accepted: 12/03/2019] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Adequate energy intake and homeostasis are fundamental for the appropriate growth and maintenance of an organism; the presence of a tumor can break this equilibrium. Tumor energy requests can lead to extreme weight loss in animals and cachexia in cancer patients. Angiogenesis inhibitors, acting on tumor vascularization, counteract this tumor-host energy imbalance, with significant results in preclinical models and more limited results in the clinic. Current pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic models mainly focus on the antiangiogenic effects on tumor growth but do not provide information about host conditions. A model that can predict energetic conditions that provide significant tumor growth inhibition with acceptable host body weight reduction is therefore needed. We developed a new tumor-in-host dynamic energy budget (DEB)-based model to account for the cytostatic activity of antiangiogenic treatments. Drug effect was implemented as an inhibition of the energy fraction subtracted from the host by the tumor. The model was tested on seven xenograft experiments involving bevacizumab and three different tumor cell lines. The model successfully predicted tumor and host body growth data, providing a quantitative measurement of drug potency and tumor-related cachexia. The inclusion of a hypoxia-triggered resistance mechanism enabled investigation of the decreased efficacy frequently observed with prolonged bevacizumab treatments. In conclusion, the tumor-in-host DEB-based approach has been extended to account for the effect of bevacizumab. The resistance model predicts the response to different administration protocols and, for the first time, the impact of tumor-related cachexia in different cell lines. Finally, the physiologic base of the model strongly suggests its use in translational human research. SIGNIFICANCE: A mathematical model describes tumor growth in animal models, taking into consideration the energy balance involving both the growth of tumor and the physiologic functions of the host.
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- Elena M Tosca
- Dipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale e dell'Informazione, Università degli Studi di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale e dell'Informazione, Università degli Studi di Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
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Bosker T, Olthof G, Vijver MG, Baas J, Barmentlo SH. Significant decline of Daphnia magna population biomass due to microplastic exposure. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION (BARKING, ESSEX : 1987) 2019; 250:669-675. [PMID: 31035149 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2019.04.067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2019] [Revised: 03/28/2019] [Accepted: 04/13/2019] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Even though microplastics are intensively studied, the focus of the research is mainly on relatively short term effects at high doses. Therefore there is a need to shift the focus toward more realistic, longer-term endpoints. Studies with a range of chemicals have shown that the response of populations often differs from studies in which a single organism is exposed in an individual container (as often described within standard ecotox screening assays). Here we investigate the impact of primary microplastics (1-5 μm in size) on a population of Daphnia magna. We first allowed a stable population of D. magna to develop over 29 d, after which the populations were exposed to microplastics for three weeks (concentrations ranging from 102 to 105 particles mL-1 and a control). We found a significant impact of microplastics on the total population of D. magna, with a reduction in the amount of adult daphnids. Importantly, when expressed as total biomass, exposure to 105 microplastics mL-1 resulted in a 21% reduction in total biomass compared to control. These results indicate that exposure to microplastics can result in significant adverse effects on the population of D. magna, including a reduction in the number of individuals as well as total biomass. Given the importance of D. magna in freshwater food webs, both as a grazer as well as a food source, this can potentially impact the functioning of the ecosystem.
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- Thijs Bosker
- Leiden University College, Leiden University, P.O. Box 13228, 2501, EE, The Hague, the Netherlands; Institute of Environmental Sciences, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9518, 2300, RA Leiden, the Netherlands.
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- Institute of Environmental Sciences, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9518, 2300, RA Leiden, the Netherlands.
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- Institute of Environmental Sciences, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9518, 2300, RA Leiden, the Netherlands.
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- Institute of Environmental Sciences, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9518, 2300, RA Leiden, the Netherlands; Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Maclean Building, Benson Lane, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, OX10 8BB, UK.
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- Institute of Environmental Sciences, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9518, 2300, RA Leiden, the Netherlands.
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Jaikumar G, Brun NR, Vijver MG, Bosker T. Reproductive toxicity of primary and secondary microplastics to three cladocerans during chronic exposure. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION (BARKING, ESSEX : 1987) 2019; 249:638-646. [PMID: 30933761 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2019.03.085] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2018] [Revised: 03/19/2019] [Accepted: 03/20/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Microplastics (<5 mm) are distributed ubiquitously in natural environments. The majority of microplastics in aquatic environments are shown to have rough surfaces due to various weathering processes (secondary microplastics; SMP), while laboratory studies predominantly utilise pristine microplastics (primary microplastics; PMP). Here we present the results from a study comparing the chronic effects of pristine PMP and artificially weathered SMP to three different Cladoceran species (Daphnia magna, Daphnia pulex, Ceriodaphnia dubia). We assessed the impact of PMP and SMP on reproductive output using various measured parameters, including time of first brood, size of first brood, size of first three broods, cumulative number of neonates, total number of broods and terminal length of test animals. Our results show that reproductive output of all species declined in a dose-dependent manner. The No Observed Effect Concentration (NOEC) was less than the lowest tested concentration (102 p/mL) for at least one measured endpoint for all species and both PMP and SMP. Further, it was inferred that species sensitivity varied inversely with body size for most endpoints, resulting in C. dubia being the most sensitive species; and D. magna being the least sensitive species under study. In addition, PMP appeared to have greater toxic potential as compared to SMP. This study is the first to directly compare the chronic toxicity of both pristine and weathered microplastic particles on three freshwater toxicological model organisms. Our results indicate that sensitivity in reproduction and growth to microplastics may differ between species and type of microplastic exposed; highlighting the importance of using multiple species and structural types of particles.
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- Gayathri Jaikumar
- Institute of Environmental Sciences, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9518, 2300 RA Leiden, the Netherlands.
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- Institute of Environmental Sciences, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9518, 2300 RA Leiden, the Netherlands.
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- Institute of Environmental Sciences, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9518, 2300 RA Leiden, the Netherlands.
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- Institute of Environmental Sciences, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9518, 2300 RA Leiden, the Netherlands; Leiden University College, Leiden University, P.O. Box 13228, 2501 EE, The Hague, the Netherlands.
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Saaristo M, Lagesson A, Bertram MG, Fick J, Klaminder J, Johnstone CP, Wong BBM, Brodin T. Behavioural effects of psychoactive pharmaceutical exposure on European perch (Perca fluviatilis) in a multi-stressor environment. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2019; 655:1311-1320. [PMID: 30577123 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.11.228] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2018] [Revised: 11/14/2018] [Accepted: 11/15/2018] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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With the ability to resist biodegradation and exert therapeutic effects at low concentrations, pharmaceutical contaminants have become environmental stressors for wildlife. One such contaminant is the anxiolytic oxazepam, a psychoactive pharmaceutical that is frequently detected in surface waters globally. Despite growing interest in understanding how wildlife respond to anxiolytics, synergistic effects of pharmaceuticals and other abiotic (e.g. temperature) and biotic (e.g. predation risk) stressors remain unclear. Here, using a multi-stressor approach, we investigated effects of 7-day oxazepam exposure (6.5 μg/L) on anxiety-related behaviours in juvenile European perch (Perca fluviatilis). The multi-stressor approach was achieved by exposing perch to oxazepam at two temperatures (10 °C and 18 °C), and at two predation risk regimes-generated using chemical cues from the northern pike (Esox lucius). Our exposures resulted in a successful uptake of the drug from the water, i.e., oxazepam was measured in perch muscle tissue at 50 ± 17 ng/g (mean ± SD). We found significant oxazepam-induced effects on boldness, with 76.7% of the treated fish entering the white background (i.e. 'exposed' area where exposure to presumed risks are higher) within the first 5 min, compared to 66.6% of the control fish. We also found a significant effect of temperature on total time spent freezing (i.e. staying motionless). Specifically, fish in the low temperature treatments (oxazepam, predation) froze for longer than fish in high temperatures. Our multi-stressor study is the first to uncover how anxiety-related behaviours in wild juvenile fish are altered by changes in water temperature and perceived predation risk. Importantly, our findings highlight the need to focus on multiple stressors to improve understanding of how organisms not only survive, but adapt to, human-induced environmental change.
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- Minna Saaristo
- School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Victoria, Australia; Department of Biosciences, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland.
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- Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Victoria, Australia
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- Department of Chemistry, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Victoria, Australia
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- Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden; Department of Wildlife, Fish, and Environmental Studies, SLU, Umeå, Sweden
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Tosca EM, Pigatto MC, Dalla Costa T, Magni P. A Population Dynamic Energy Budget-Based Tumor Growth Inhibition Model for Etoposide Effects on Wistar Rats. Pharm Res 2019; 36:38. [PMID: 30635794 DOI: 10.1007/s11095-019-2568-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2018] [Accepted: 01/03/2019] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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PURPOSE This work aimed to develop a population PK/PD tumor-in-host model able to describe etoposide effects on both tumor cells and host in Walker-256 tumor-bearing rats. METHODS Etoposide was investigated on thirty-eight Wistar rats randomized in five arms: two groups of tumor-free animals receiving either placebo or etoposide (10 mg/kg bolus for 4 days) and three groups of tumor-bearing animals receiving either placebo or etoposide (5 or 10 mg/kg bolus for 8 or 4 days, respectively). To analyze experimental data, a tumor-in-host growth inhibition (TGI) model, based on the Dynamic Energy Budget (DEB) theory, was developed. Total plasma and free-interstitial tumor etoposide concentrations were assessed as driver of tumor kinetics. RESULTS The model simultaneously describes tumor and host growths, etoposide antitumor effect as well as cachexia phenomena related to both the tumor and the drug treatment. The schedule-dependent inhibitory effect of etoposide is also well captured when the intratumoral drug concentration is considered as the driver of the tumor kinetics. CONCLUSIONS The DEB-based TGI model capabilities, up to now assessed only in mice, are fully confirmed in this study involving rats. Results suggest that well designed experiments combined with a mechanistic modeling approach could be extremely useful to understand drug effects and to describe all the dynamics characterizing in vivo tumor growth studies.
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- E M Tosca
- Dipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale e dell'Informazione, Universita degli Studi di Pavia, I-27100, Pavia, Italy
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- Pharmacokinetics and PK/PD Modeling Laboratory, Pharmaceutical Sciences Graduate Program, Faculty of Pharmacy, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, 90.610-000, Brazil.,R&D Department, Eurofarma Laboratories S.A., Itapevi, SP, 06, Brazil
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- Pharmacokinetics and PK/PD Modeling Laboratory, Pharmaceutical Sciences Graduate Program, Faculty of Pharmacy, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, 90.610-000, Brazil
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- Dipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale e dell'Informazione, Universita degli Studi di Pavia, I-27100, Pavia, Italy.
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Feckler A, Rakovic J, Kahlert M, Tröger R, Bundschuh M. Blinded by the light: Increased chlorophyll fluorescence of herbicide-exposed periphyton masks unfavorable structural responses during exposure and recovery. AQUATIC TOXICOLOGY (AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS) 2018; 203:187-193. [PMID: 30153560 DOI: 10.1016/j.aquatox.2018.08.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2018] [Revised: 08/17/2018] [Accepted: 08/17/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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In surface waters within agricultural catchments, periphyton - i.e., biofilms containing algae, heterotrophs, and associated detritus - is subjected to multiple stressors including herbicides. Although herbicide effects on periphyton are frequently studied, the focus has been on photosynthesis-inhibiting herbicides while other modes of toxic action have received little attention. Against this background, a 21-days-lasting bioassay was conducted, during which mature periphytic communities were exposed to the carotenoid-biosynthesis-inhibiting herbicide diflufenican for 12 days (up to 10 μg/L; n = 4), followed by a 9-days-lasting recovery phase in herbicide-free medium. Variables related to periphytic functioning (photosynthetic efficiency and non-photochemical quenching) and structure (pigment concentrations, biomass, and algal community structure) were quantified every third day during both experimental phases. Exposure to ≥ 0.2 μg diflufenican/L resulted in 20-25% and 25-30% lowered carotenoid and chlorophyll a concentrations, respectively, likely explained by a reduced algal biovolume as well as diflufenican's mode of toxic action and thus a shift towards a higher heterotrophy of the communities. Despite these adverse effects on the photosynthetic apparatus, the photosynthetic efficiency increased by up to ∼15% under diflufenican exposure judged on higher chlorophyll fluorescence. This may be explained by an up to ∼60% reduced non-photochemical quenching as well as binding of diflufenican to the pigment-protein membrane complex of the photosystem II, two processes causing higher chlorophyll fluorescence. Additionally, phototrophs may have actively increased energy assimilation to cope with higher energy demands under chemical stress. Although periphyton showed some recovery potential following the exposure phase, observed as increasing chlorophyll a concentrations and non-photochemical quenching, periphyton may not be able to quickly recover from stress given the persistent increase in the photosynthetic efficiency. While the processes underlying the observed effects yet remain speculative, the results suggest a shift towards a higher degree of heterotrophy in periphytic communities ultimately increasing the importance of heterotrophic ecosystem functions at impacted sites over the long term.
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- Alexander Feckler
- Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Box 7050, SE-750 07 Uppsala, Sweden.
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- Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Box 7050, SE-750 07 Uppsala, Sweden; Department of Soil and Environment, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Box 7014, SE-750 07 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Box 7050, SE-750 07 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Box 7050, SE-750 07 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Box 7050, SE-750 07 Uppsala, Sweden; Institute for Environmental Sciences, University of Koblenz-Landau, Fortstraße 7, D-76829 Landau, Germany.
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Marques GM, Augustine S, Lika K, Pecquerie L, Domingos T, Kooijman SALM. The AmP project: Comparing species on the basis of dynamic energy budget parameters. PLoS Comput Biol 2018; 14:e1006100. [PMID: 29742099 PMCID: PMC5962104 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2017] [Revised: 05/21/2018] [Accepted: 03/20/2018] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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We developed new methods for parameter estimation-in-context and, with the help of 125 authors, built the AmP (Add-my-Pet) database of Dynamic Energy Budget (DEB) models, parameters and referenced underlying data for animals, where each species constitutes one database entry. The combination of DEB parameters covers all aspects of energetics throughout the full organism’s life cycle, from the start of embryo development to death by aging. The species-specific parameter values capture biodiversity and can now, for the first time, be compared between animals species. An important insight brought by the AmP project is the classification of animal energetics according to a family of related DEB models that is structured on the basis of the mode of metabolic acceleration, which links up with the development of larval stages. We discuss the evolution of metabolism in this context, among animals in general, and ray-finned fish, mollusks and crustaceans in particular. New DEBtool code for estimating DEB parameters from data has been written. AmPtool code for analyzing patterns in parameter values has also been created. A new web-interface supports multiple ways to visualize data, parameters, and implied properties from the entire collection as well as on an entry by entry basis. The DEB models proved to fit data well, the median relative error is only 0.07, for the 1035 animal species at 2018/03/12, including some extinct ones, from all large phyla and all chordate orders, spanning a range of body masses of 16 orders of magnitude. This study is a first step to include evolutionary aspects into parameter estimation, allowing to infer properties of species for which very little is known. We discovered that parameters of Dynamic Energy Budget (DEB) models can be estimated from a set of simple data on animal life history aspects, growth and reproduction, if treated in combination. Apart from goodness-of-fit as an estimation criterion, relations with parameter values of other species are important, since DEB parameters have a clear physiological interpretation and a good fit for the wrong reasons is always a risk to consider. We developed and optimized methods for this type of parameter estimation-in-context and organized the results of over 1000 animal species in the open-access Add-my-Pet (AmP) database, to which 125 authors contributed so far. We also developed software package AmPtool to compare parameter values in the collection, that builds on DEBtool to assist applications of DEB theory. A family of related DEB models, structured with respect to the modes of metabolic acceleration, captures biodiversity, including various life stages. We discuss some features of the family structure of DEB models in an evolutionary context. The AmP collection has a great potential for research on the role of biodiversity in ecosystem structure and functioning, which will grow with the size of the database.
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- Gonçalo M. Marques
- MARETEC – Marine, Environment & Technology Center, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
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- Akvaplan-niva, Fram High North Research Centre for Climate and the Environment, Tromsø, Norway
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- Department of Biology, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece
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- MARETEC – Marine, Environment & Technology Center, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
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Barbosa M, Inocentes N, Soares AMVM, Oliveira M. Synergy effects of fluoxetine and variability in temperature lead to proportionally greater fitness costs in Daphnia: A multigenerational test. AQUATIC TOXICOLOGY (AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS) 2017; 193:268-275. [PMID: 29125953 DOI: 10.1016/j.aquatox.2017.10.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2017] [Revised: 10/19/2017] [Accepted: 10/24/2017] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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Increased variability in water temperature is predicted to impose disproportionally greater fitness costs than mean increase in temperature. Additionally, water contaminants are currently a major source of human-induced stress likely to produce fitness costs. Global change models forecast an increase in these two human-induced stressors. Yet, in spite the growing interest in understanding how organisms respond to global change, the joint fitness effects of water pollution and increased variability in temperature remain unclear. Here, using a multigenerational design, we test the hypothesis that exposure to high concentrations of fluoxetine, a human medicine commonly found in freshwater systems, causes increased lifetime fitness costs, when associated with increased variability in temperature. Although fluoxetine and variability in temperature elicited some fitness cost when tested alone, when both stressors acted together the costs were disproportionally greater. The combined effect of fluoxetine and variability in temperature led to a reduction of 37% in lifetime reproductive success and a 17.9% decrease in population growth rate. Interestingly, fluoxetine and variability in temperature had no effect on the probability of survival. Freshwater systems are among the most imperilled ecosystems, often exposed to multiple human-induced stressors. Our results indicate that organisms face greater fitness risk when exposed to multiple stressors at the same time than when each stress acts alone. Our study highlights the importance of using a multi-generational approach to fully understand individual environmental tolerance and its responses to a global change scenario in aquatic systems.
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- Miguel Barbosa
- Department of Biology & CESAM - Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies, University of Aveiro, Campus Universitário Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal; Centre for Biological Diversity, School of Biology, University of St Andrews, East Sands, St Andrews KY16 8LB, Fife, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biology & CESAM - Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies, University of Aveiro, Campus Universitário Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal
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- Department of Biology & CESAM - Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies, University of Aveiro, Campus Universitário Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal
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- Department of Biology & CESAM - Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies, University of Aveiro, Campus Universitário Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal.
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Metamorphosis is induced by food absence rather than a critical weight in the solitary bee, Osmia lignaria. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2017; 114:10924-10929. [PMID: 28973885 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1703008114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Body size is an important phenotypic trait that correlates with performance and fitness. For determinate growing insects, body size variation is determined by growth rate and the mechanisms that stop growth at the end of juvenile growth. Endocrine mechanisms regulate growth cessation, and their relative timing along development shapes phenotypic variation in body size and development time. Larval insects are generally hypothesized to initiate metamorphosis once they attain a critical weight. However, the mechanisms underlying the critical weight have not been resolved even for well-studied insect species. More importantly, critical weights may or may not be generalizable across species. In this study, we characterized the developmental aspects of size regulation in the solitary bee, Osmia lignaria We demonstrate that starvation cues metamorphosis in O. lignaria and that a critical weight does not exist in this species. Larvae initiated pupation <24 h after food was absent. However, even larvae fed ad libitum eventually underwent metamorphosis, suggesting that some secondary mechanism regulates metamorphosis when provisions are not completely consumed. We show that metamorphosis could be induced by precocene treatment in the presence of food, which suggests that this decision is regulated through juvenile hormone signaling. Removing food at different larval masses produced a 10-fold difference in mass between smallest and largest adults. We discuss the implications of body size variation for insect species that are provided with a fixed quantity of provisions, including many bees which have economic value as pollinators.
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Grossowicz M, Marques GM, van Voorn GA. A dynamic energy budget (DEB) model to describe population dynamics of the marine cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus marinus. Ecol Modell 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2017.06.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Marn N, Jusup M, Legović T, Kooijman S, Klanjšček T. Environmental effects on growth, reproduction, and life-history traits of loggerhead turtles. Ecol Modell 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2017.07.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Modelling plankton ecosystems in the meta-omics era. Are we ready? Mar Genomics 2017; 32:1-17. [DOI: 10.1016/j.margen.2017.02.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2016] [Revised: 02/24/2017] [Accepted: 02/25/2017] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Wagner ND, Simpson AJ, Simpson MJ. Metabolomic responses to sublethal contaminant exposure in neonate and adult Daphnia magna. ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY 2017; 36:938-946. [PMID: 27571995 DOI: 10.1002/etc.3604] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2016] [Revised: 06/02/2016] [Accepted: 08/29/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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The use of consumer products and pharmaceuticals that act as contaminants entering waterways through runoff and wastewater effluents alters aquatic ecosystem health. Traditional toxicological endpoints may underestimate the toxicity of contaminants, as lethal concentrations are often orders of magnitude higher than those found within freshwater ecosystems. While newer techniques examine the metabolic responses of sublethal contaminant exposure, there has been no direct comparison with ontogeny in Daphnia. It was hypothesized that Daphnia magna would have distinct metabolic changes after 3 different sublethal contaminant exposures, because of differences in the toxic mode of action and ontogeny. To test this hypothesis, the proton nuclear magnetic resonance metabolomic profiles were measured in D. magna aged day 0 and 18 after exposure to 28% of the lethal concentration of 50% of organisms tested (LC50) of atrazine, propranolol, and perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) for 48 h. Principal component analysis revealed significant separation of contaminants from the control daphnids in both neonates and adults exposed to propranolol and PFOS. In contrast, atrazine exposure caused separation from the controls in only the adult D. magna. Minimal ontogenetic changes in the targeted metabolites were seen after exposure to propranolol. For both atrazine and PFOS exposures ontogeny exhibited unique changes in the targeted metabolites. These results indicate that, depending on the contaminant studied, neonates and adults respond uniquely to sublethal contaminant exposure. Environ Toxicol Chem 2017;36:938-946. © 2016 SETAC.
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- Environmental NMR Centre and Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
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- Environmental NMR Centre and Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
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- Environmental NMR Centre and Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
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The universality and the future prospects of physiological energetics. Phys Life Rev 2017; 20:78-84. [DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2017.02.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2017] [Accepted: 02/07/2017] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Kooijman SA. Homeostasis and the fuelling of metabolism. Phys Life Rev 2017; 20:60-62. [DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2016.11.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2016] [Accepted: 11/15/2016] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Panizzi S, Suciu NA, Trevisan M. Combined ecotoxicological risk assessment in the frame of European authorization of pesticides. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2017; 580:136-146. [PMID: 28012656 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.10.154] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2016] [Revised: 10/19/2016] [Accepted: 10/19/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Organisms are frequently exposed to mixtures of chemical contaminants in the environment, causing a potential "cocktail effect", or combined effect. The joint action of different molecules with similar or different modes of action could result in a potentially unlimited number of additives, synergistic or antagonistic combinations. Since the large number of contaminants makes it impossible to perform ecotoxicity tests for each potential mixture, a robust approach for prospective environmental risk assessment of chemical mixtures is needed. A number of recent publications by the European Commission and the authorities in charge prove the increasing interest that is spreading in the European community towards the topic of the assessment of chemical mixtures. The current EU regulation for Plant Protection Products authorization (Reg. 1107/2009 EC) explicitly requires the evaluation of the potential combined effects of active substances. We reviewed current methods and limitations of mixture assessment of pesticides (7 fungicides and 4 herbicides) through the analysis of the approaches adopted to investigate possible risks for different non-target organisms. The Concentration Addition (CA) approach was the most used approach to predict multiple toxicity to non-target organisms. The guidance for birds and mammals first introduced standard procedures to assess the multiple toxicity based on on CA concept. The recent aquatic EFSA guidance introduced some requirements to evaluate potential mixture toxicity, while the current guidance requirements for terrestrial organisms still lack clear indications on how to conduct the assessment. Moreover, new indications come from the draft guidance for the assessment of terrestrial plants and in-soil organisms. However, the approval and implementation of these new guidelines are still at a developmental stage. Some final considerations are drawn on the future possibilities to improve risk assessment procedures so as to identify harmful effects of pesticides mixtures on non-target organisms.
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- Silvia Panizzi
- Istituto di Chimica Agraria ed Ambientale, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Piacenza, Italy.
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- Istituto di Chimica Agraria ed Ambientale, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Piacenza, Italy
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- Istituto di Chimica Agraria ed Ambientale, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Piacenza, Italy
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Rohr JR, Salice CJ, Nisbet RM. The pros and cons of ecological risk assessment based on data from different levels of biological organization. Crit Rev Toxicol 2016; 46:756-84. [PMID: 27340745 PMCID: PMC5141515 DOI: 10.1080/10408444.2016.1190685] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2016] [Revised: 05/12/2016] [Accepted: 05/13/2016] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Ecological risk assessment (ERA) is the process used to evaluate the safety of manufactured chemicals to the environment. Here we review the pros and cons of ERA across levels of biological organization, including suborganismal (e.g., biomarkers), individual, population, community, ecosystem and landscapes levels. Our review revealed that level of biological organization is often related negatively with ease at assessing cause-effect relationships, ease of high-throughput screening of large numbers of chemicals (it is especially easier for suborganismal endpoints), and uncertainty of the ERA because low levels of biological organization tend to have a large distance between their measurement (what is quantified) and assessment endpoints (what is to be protected). In contrast, level of biological organization is often related positively with sensitivity to important negative and positive feedbacks and context dependencies within biological systems, and ease at capturing recovery from adverse contaminant effects. Some endpoints did not show obvious trends across levels of biological organization, such as the use of vertebrate animals in chemical testing and ease at screening large numbers of species, and other factors lacked sufficient data across levels of biological organization, such as repeatability, variability, cost per study and cost per species of effects assessment, the latter of which might be a more defensible way to compare costs of ERAs than cost per study. To compensate for weaknesses of ERA at any particular level of biological organization, we also review mathematical modeling approaches commonly used to extrapolate effects across levels of organization. Finally, we provide recommendations for next generation ERA, submitting that if there is an ideal level of biological organization to conduct ERA, it will only emerge if ERA is approached simultaneously from the bottom of biological organization up as well as from the top down, all while employing mathematical modeling approaches where possible to enhance ERA. Because top-down ERA is unconventional, we also offer some suggestions for how it might be implemented efficaciously. We hope this review helps researchers in the field of ERA fill key information gaps and helps risk assessors identify the best levels of biological organization to conduct ERAs with differing goals.
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- University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9620
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Sperfeld E, Wagner ND, Halvorson HM, Malishev M, Raubenheimer D. Bridging Ecological Stoichiometry and Nutritional Geometry with homeostasis concepts and integrative models of organism nutrition. Funct Ecol 2016. [DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12707] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Erik Sperfeld
- Department of Experimental Limnology Leibniz‐Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) Alte Fischerhütte 2 OT Neuglobsow 16775 Stechlin Germany
- School of Biological Sciences and The Charles Perkins Centre The University of Sydney Sydney New South Wales2006 Australia
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- Environmental and Life Science Graduate Program Trent University Peterborough Ontario K9L7B8 Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences University of Arkansas Fayetteville Arkansas72701 USA
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- Centre of Excellence for Biosecurity Risk Analysis (CEBRA) School of BioSciences University of Melbourne Melbourne Victoria3010 Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences and The Charles Perkins Centre The University of Sydney Sydney New South Wales2006 Australia
- Faculty of Veterinary Science The University of Sydney Sydney New South Wales2006 Australia
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Jager T. Predicting environmental risk: A road map for the future. JOURNAL OF TOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH. PART A 2016; 79:572-584. [PMID: 27484139 DOI: 10.1080/15287394.2016.1171986] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
Abstract
Frameworks for environmental risk assessment (ERA) focus on comparing results from separate exposure and effect assessments. Exposure assessment generally relies on mechanistic fate models, whereas the effects assessment is anchored in standard test protocols and descriptive statistics. This discrepancy prevents a useful link between these two pillars of ERA, and jeopardizes the realism and efficacy of the entire process. Similar to exposure assessment, effects assessment requires a mechanistic approach to translate the output of fate models into predictions for impacts on populations and food webs. The aim of this study was to discuss (1) the central importance of the individual level, (2) different strategies of dealing with biological complexity, and (3) the role that toxicokinetic-toxicodynamic (TKTD) models, energy budgets, and molecular biology play in a mechanistic revision of the ERA framework. Consequently, an outline for a risk assessment paradigm was developed that incorporates a mechanistic effects assessment in a consistent manner, and a "roadmap for the future." Such a roadmap may play a critical role to eventually arrive at a more scientific and efficient ERA process, and needs to be used to shape our long-term research agendas.
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