Journal
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
Volume 757, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.143896
Keywords
Crude oil exposure; PAH uptake and metabolism; gene expression; cyp1a; cyp1b; cyp1c; cyp1d; bmp10; abcb1; rhag; Two developmental time periods; Atlantic haddock; Phenanthrene metabolites
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- Research Council of Norway [267820]
- Institute of Marine Research, Norway
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Early life stages of fish are highly sensitive to crude oil exposure, with detrimental consequences for juvenile survival. Gene expression changes are linked to PAH uptake, metabolite formation, and developmental abnormalities. Changes in bmp10 and rhag expression suggest direct impact on calcium homeostasis and osmoregulation.
Early life stages of fish are highly sensitive to crude oil exposure and thus, short term exposures during critical developmental periods could have detrimental consequences for juvenile survival. Here we administered crude oil to Atlantic haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus) in short term (3-day) exposures at two developmental time periods: before first heartbeat, from gastrulation to cardiac cone stage (early), and from first heartbeat to one day before hatching (late). A frequent sampling regime enabled us to determine immediate PAH uptake, metabolite formation and gene expression changes. In general, the embryotoxic consequences of an oil exposure were more severe in the early exposure animals. Oil droplets on the eggshell resulted in severe cardiac and craniofacial abnormalities in the highest treatments. Gene expression changes of Cytochrome 1 a, b, c and d (cyp1a, b, c, d), Bone morphogenetic protein 10 (bmp10), ABC transporter b1 (abcb1) and Rh-associated G-protein (rhag) were linked to PAH uptake, occurrence of metabolites of phenanthrene and developmental and functional abnormalities. We detected circulation-independent, oil-induced gene expression changes and separated phenotypes linked to proliferation, growth and disruption of formation events at early and late developmental stages. Changes in bmp10 expression suggest a direct oil-induced effect on calcium homeostasis. Localized expression of rhag propose an impact on osmoregulation. Severe eye abnormalities were linked to possible inappropriate overexpression of cyp1b in the eyes. This study gives an increased knowledge about developmentally dependent effects of crude oil toxicity. Thus, our findings provide more knowledge and detail to new and several existing adverse outcome pathways of crude oil toxicity. (C) 2020 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V.
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