Use of Daphnia magna for the Microbioassay of Pesticides. I. Development of Standardized Techniques for Rearing Daphnia and Preparation of Dosage-Mortality Curves for Pesticides1

Frear, D. E. H.; Boyd, John E

doi:10.1093/jee/60.5.1228

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“…Literature IC 50 s for acute toxicity of pp'DDT on D. magna (Table II) (Frear and Boyd, 1967;Randall et al, 1979) are in good agreement with this result, bearing in mind that the literature data refer to the nominal concentration and that a certain variability is usually observed between Daphnia strains cultured in different laboratories (Baird et al, 1990). An even higher variability, however, is to be expected in pp'DDT sensitivity at the inter-specific level: the sensitivity of D. pulex to pp'DDT was much higher than that of the two other Daphnia species (Table II).…”

Section: Zooplanktonsupporting

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Ecological Risk Assessment for the Recent Case of DDT Pollution in Lake Maggiore (Northern Italy)

Bettinetti

Croce

Galassi

2005

Water Air Soil Pollut

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Contamination by DDT of industrial origin was detected in 1996 in Lake Maggiore (Northern Italy) causing concern for wildlife and human health. Starting from 1998 a monitoring programme involving different research laboratories was undertaken to establish the pollution level of the lake. In assessing the ecological risk to Lake Maggiore wildlife during this period, the present study integrates information provided by the Commission for the Protection of Italian and Swiss Waters with further analysis and ecotoxicological tests carried out on some autochthonous target species for this insecticide. Sediments collected at the end of 1997 in the most contaminated bay (total DDT 860.2 ng g −1 dry weight) caused a decrease in fertility and growth of benthic oligochaetes and chironomids, while the 48 h IC 50 for Daphnia galeata (0.76 µg L −1 , c.i. 0.43-1.34) was much higher than the DDT concentration in the lake water. The risk of acute effects on zooplankton should therefore be excluded, while transfer through the trophic web and bioconcentration in fish and fish-eating birds are the most adverse consequences of DDT contamination in Lake Maggiore.

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Section: Zooplanktonsupporting

confidence: 78%

Ecological Risk Assessment for the Recent Case of DDT Pollution in Lake Maggiore (Northern Italy)

Bettinetti

Croce

Galassi

2005

Water Air Soil Pollut

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“…In the present study, the lowest reported effect level for a certain taxonomic group is used. Data were obtained from open literature and technical reports containing validated toxicological data [17–26]. Priority was given to reviewed sources of data sets, as a thorough evaluation of the quality of data in primary sources was beyond the scope of this study.…”

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Ecological risk assessment of agrochemicals in European estuaries

Steen

Leonards

Brinkman

et al. 1999

Enviro Toxic and Chemistry

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Abstract-The Fluxes of Agrochemicals into the Marine Environment (FAME) project, which was funded by the European Union, studied the presence and fate of pesticides in major European river/estuary systems. As part of the cooperation within FAME, samples from four rivers were sent to all participants. Each laboratory analyzed the samples with a range of techniques, thus creating a database that could not have been developed through individual efforts. In the present study, compounds are identified that are important to the contamination of the marine environment on the basis of their environmental concentrations and toxicological properties. Two risk assessment methods are used. The toxic unit method, which provides a first indication of the relative contribution of compounds to the total toxicity of a sample, and the inverse method of Van Straalen and Denneman, which has been used to assess the ecological risk of a selected set of compounds (i.e., atrazine, simazine, alachlor, and metolachlor). Environmental concentrations of these target compounds were determined at different seasons during a period of at least 1 year and, hence, variations in ecological risk patterns for different European river/estuary systems could be identified. The application of the risk assessment procedures is hampered by a lack of toxicological data. It is concluded, however, that pesticides exert a significant pressure on the aquatic system. To our knowledge, this is the first joint study in which the ecological risks of modern pesticides related to different European river/estuary systems are compared.

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“…The time of exposure of animals to toxicants has a profound effect on the percentage of the population responding, and thus it affects the sensitivity and in many cases the practicality of ISSN 2157-6076 2015 the method (Frear and Boyd, 1967). However, the time of exposure used in Daphnia bioassays varies largely from one method to another.…”

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“…For example, the American Standard Methods (APHA, 1975) recommend an exposure time of 48 h, while the Japanese Standard Methods (Hashimoto and Nishiucbi, 1981) recommend 3 hr only. On the other hand, Frear and Boyd (1967) used a-26 h exposure period, while Parker et al (1970) used 30 min only. In this respect, we have previously suggested that shorter exposure periods (e.g.…”

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Toxicity of Some Pesticides, Heavy Metals and Their Mixtures to Vibrio fischeri Bacteria and Daphnia magna: Comparative Study

Mansour

Abdel-Hamid²,

Ibrahim³

et al. 2015

JBLS

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The present study was conducted to evaluate the sensitivity of the Vibrio fischeri bioluminescence inhibition test (Microtox ® assay), and the standard acute Daphnia magna test; using 3 heavy metals, 3 organic pesticides, and their mixtures. In Daphnia tests, either at 24h or 30 min exposure times, the pattern of toxicity order for heavy metals was Cu ˃ Cd ˃ Pb. Chlorpyrifos-methyl was the highest toxic at 24h, while Triazophos was the highest toxic at 30 min exposure times.

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Use of Daphnia magna for the Microbioassay of Pesticides. I. Development of Standardized Techniques for Rearing Daphnia and Preparation of Dosage-Mortality Curves for Pesticides1

Cited by 55 publications

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Ecological Risk Assessment for the Recent Case of DDT Pollution in Lake Maggiore (Northern Italy)

Ecological Risk Assessment for the Recent Case of DDT Pollution in Lake Maggiore (Northern Italy)

Ecological risk assessment of agrochemicals in European estuaries

Toxicity of Some Pesticides, Heavy Metals and Their Mixtures to Vibrio fischeri Bacteria and Daphnia magna: Comparative Study

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