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BULLETIN OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION AND TOXICOLOGY
Volume 111, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00128-023-03768-8
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Metal toxicity; Ciliates; Aquatic toxicology; Toxicokinetics; Environmental toxicology
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An integral analysis was conducted on the acute and chronic toxicity, bioaccumulation, sites of entry, and distribution of four trace metals (copper, iron, lead, nickel) and the non-trace metal mercury in the ciliate Paramecium caudatum. Mercury was found to be the fastest accumulating and most toxic metal. The sensitivity of Paramecium caudatum to the five metals tested was similar to other ciliate species. The findings suggest the potential for safer guidelines to protect aquatic biota.
An integral analysis of the acute and chronic toxicity, bioaccumulation, sites of entry, and distribution of four trace metals: copper, iron, lead, and nickel, and the non-trace metal mercury were performed in the ciliate Paramecium caudatum. Mercury was the fastest metal accumulated, and the most toxic. The sensitivity of Paramecium caudatum to the five metals tested (Cu, Fe, Hg, Ni, and Zn) falls in the range of other ciliate species. We observed similarities between the toxicity of the five metals to the ciliate P. caudatum with the rotifer Euchlanis dilatata: (a) Mercury was the most toxic metal in terms of acute and body burdens. (b) Acute values were very similar in both species, Hg as the most toxic and Fe as the less toxic, (c) the vacuole/ingestion chronic tests were more sensitive than growth inhibition chronic tests. These analyses would ideally help generate safer guidelines for protecting aquatic biota.
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