Journal
ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION
Volume 205, Issue -, Pages 209-217Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2015.05.040
Keywords
Copper toxicity; Population genetics; Evolutionary pattern; Freshwater snail; Ecological risk assessment
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- INRA-Onema Phylogeny and Polluosensitivity program
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The use of standardized monospecific testing to assess the ecological risk of chemicals implicitly relies on the strong assumption that intraspecific variation in sensitivity is negligible or irrelevant in this context. In this study, we investigated genetic variation in copper sensitivity of the freshwater snail Lymnaea stagnalis, using lineages stemming from eight natural populations or strains found to be genetically differentiated at neutral markers. Copper-induced mortality varied widely among populations, as did the estimated daily death rate and time to 50% mortality (LT50). Population genetic divergence in copper sensitivity was compared to neutral differentiation using the Qs-r-FsT approach. No evidence for homogenizing selection could be detected. This result demonstrates that species-level extrapolations from single population studies are highly unreliable. The study provides a simple example of how evolutionary principles could be incorporated into ecotoxicity testing in order to refine ecological risk assessment. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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