title: Temperature-dependent toxicities of four common chemical pollutants to the marine medaka fish, copepod and rotifer.
abstract: We hypothesize that chemical toxicity to marine ectotherms is the lowest at an optimum temperature (OT) and it exacerbates with increasing or decreasing temperature from the OT. This study aimed to verify this hypothetical temperature-dependent chemical toxicity (TDCT) model through laboratory experiments. Acute toxicity over a range of temperatures was tested on four commonly used chemicals to three marine ectotherms. Our results confirmed that toxicities, in terms of 96-h LC50 (median lethal concentration; for the marine medaka fish Oryzias melastigma and the copepod Tigriopus japonicus) and 24-h LC50 (for the rotifer Brachionus koreanus), were highly temperature-dependent, and varied between test species and between study chemicals. The LC50 value of the fish peaked at 20 °C for copper (II) sulphate pentahydrate and triphenyltin chloride, and at 25 °C for dichlorophenyltrichloroethane and copper pyrithione, and decreased with temperature increase or decrease from the peak (i.e., OT). However, LC50 values of the copepod and the rotifer generally showed a negative relationship with temperature across all test chemicals. Both copepod and rotifer entered dormancy at the lowest temperature of 4 °C. Such metabolic depression responses in these zooplanktons could reduce their uptake of the chemical and hence minimize the chemical toxicity at low temperatures. Our TDCT model is supported by the fish data only, whereas a simple linear model fits better to the zooplankton data. Such species-specific TDCT patterns may be jointly ascribed to temperature-mediated changes in (1) the physiological response and susceptibility of the marine ectotherms to the chemical, (2) speciation and bioavailability of the chemical, and (3) toxicokinetics of the chemical in the organisms.
authors.affiliation: The Swire Institute of Marine Science and School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Adela J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Priscilla T Y
authors.initials: PT
authors.lastname: Leung
authors.forename: Vivien W W
authors.initials: VW
authors.lastname: Bao
authors.forename: Andy X L
authors.initials: AX
authors.lastname: Yi
authors.forename: Kenneth M Y
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Leung
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D033342:Copepoda / Q000187:drug effects*; D019327:Copper Sulfate / Q000633:toxicity; D007814:Larva / Q000187:drug effects; D007928:Lethal Dose 50; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009942:Organometallic Compounds / Q000633:toxicity; D009947:Organotin Compounds / Q000633:toxicity; D009990:Oryzias; D011725:Pyridines / Q000633:toxicity; D012403:Rotifera / Q000187:drug effects*; D012623:Seawater / Q000737:chemistry; D013696:Temperature; D023382:Toxicity Tests, Acute; D014240:Trichloroethanes / Q000633:toxicity; D014874:Water Pollutants, Chemical / Q000633:toxicity*
chemical_list: D009942:Organometallic Compounds; D009947:Organotin Compounds; D011725:Pyridines; D014240:Trichloroethanes; D014874:Water Pollutants, Chemical; C487833:copper pyrithione; C012594:triphenyltin chloride; D019327:Copper Sulfate
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