| Autor: |
Gilroy ÈAM; Green House Science, Burlington, ON, Canada. eve.gilroy@canada.ca.; Aquatic Contaminant Research Division, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Burlington, ON, L7S 1A1, Canada. eve.gilroy@canada.ca., Bartlett AJ; Aquatic Contaminant Research Division, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Burlington, ON, L7S 1A1, Canada., Gillis PL; Aquatic Contaminant Research Division, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Burlington, ON, L7S 1A1, Canada., Bendo NA; Ecotoxicology and Wildlife Health Division, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Burlington, ON, Canada., Salerno J; Aquatic Contaminant Research Division, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Burlington, ON, L7S 1A1, Canada., Hedges AM; Aquatic Contaminant Research Division, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Burlington, ON, L7S 1A1, Canada., Brown LR; Aquatic Contaminant Research Division, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Burlington, ON, L7S 1A1, Canada., Holman EAM; Aquatic Contaminant Research Division, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Burlington, ON, L7S 1A1, Canada., Stock NL; Water Quality Centre, Trent University, Peterborough, ON, Canada., de Solla SR; Ecotoxicology and Wildlife Health Division, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Burlington, ON, Canada. |
| Abstrakt: |
The toxicity of endocrinologically active pharmaceuticals finasteride (FIN) and melengestrol acetate (MGA) was assessed in freshwater mussels, including acute (48 h) aqueous tests with glochidia from Lampsilis siliquoidea, sub-chronic (14 days) sediment tests with gravid female Lampsilis fasciola, and chronic (28 days) sediment tests with juvenile L. siliquoidea, and in chronic (42 days) sediment tests with the amphipod Hyalella azteca and the mayfly Hexagenia spp. Finasteride was not toxic in acute aqueous tests with L. siliquoidea glochidia (up to 23 mg/L), whereas significant toxicity to survival and burial ability was detected in chronic sediment tests with juvenile L. siliquoidea (chronic value (ChV, the geometric mean of LOEC and NOEC) = 58 mg/kg (1 mg/L)). Amphipods (survival, growth, reproduction, and sex ratio) and mayflies (growth) were similarly sensitive (ChV = 58 mg/kg (1 mg/L)). Melengestrol acetate was acutely toxic to L. siliquoidea glochidia at 4 mg/L in aqueous tests; in sediment tests, mayflies were the most sensitive species, with significant growth effects observed at 37 mg/kg (0.25 mg/L) (ChV = 21 mg/kg (0.1 mg/L)). Exposure to sublethal concentrations of FIN and MGA had no effect on the (luring and filtering) behaviour of gravid L. fasciola, or the viability of their brooding glochidia. Based on the limited number of measured environmental concentrations of both chemicals, and their projected concentrations, no direct effects are expected by these compounds individually on the invertebrates tested. However, organisms are exposed to contaminant mixtures in the aquatic environment, and thus, the effects of FIN and MGA as components of these mixtures require further investigation. |
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