Journal
MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN
Volume 197, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2023.115734
Keywords
Cellulose acetate filters; Carapace alteration; Shrimp molting; Smoked cigarette
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This study found that microfibers released from cigarette butts can adversely affect the exoskeletal structure of aquatic organisms, specifically damaging the gills and causing rapid ecdysis in whiteleg shrimp. These effects reduce the environmental adaptation capacity of crustaceans.
Cigarette butts (CB) are a source of microfibers (MFs) in aquatic environments, posing a risk to the health of aquatic organisms. Research has been focused on examining the toxicity of CBs on ecological receptors, including invertebrates. More focus has been on death, growth, or movement inhibition of but less on exoskeletal effects in malacostracans. We evaluated the alteration in the carapace structure of whiteleg shrimp (Penaeus vannamei Boone, 1931) caused by MFs derived from CBs (CB-MF). Exposure to CB-MF damaged the gills, the main organs adsorbing calcium in shrimps to generate a hard carapace, disturbing calcium uptake via respiration. Rapid ecdysis caused on CB-MF exposure reduced the environmental adaptation capacity of crustaceans in the absence of normal pigments in the chromatophore of the carapace. These findings indicate that MFs released from CBs released into the aquatic environment can adversely affect exoskeletal alteration within the overall ecosystem.
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