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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Volume 48, Issue 12, Pages 7053-7061Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/es501628k
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- Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA)
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The Deepwater Horizon incident likely resulted in exposure of commercially and ecologically important fish species to crude oil during the sensitive early life stages. We show that brief exposure of a water-accommodated fraction of oil from the spill to mahi-mahi as juveniles, or as embryos/larvae that were then raised for similar to 25 days to juveniles, reduces their swimming performance. These physiological deficits, likely attributable to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), occurred at environmentally realistic exposure concentrations. Specifically, a 48 h exposure of 1.2 +/- 0.6 mu g L-1 Sigma PAHs (geometric mean +/- SEM) to embryos/larvae that were then raised to juvenile stage or a 24 h exposure of 30 +/- 7 mu g L-1 Sigma PAHs (geometric mean +/- SEM) directly to juveniles resulted in 37% and 22% decreases in critical swimming velocities (U-crit), respectively. Oil-exposed larvae from the 48 h exposure showed a 4.5-fold increase in the incidence of pericardial and yolk sac edema relative to controls. However, this larval cardiotoxicity did not manifest in a reduced aerobic scope in the surviving juveniles. Instead, respirometric analyses point to a reduction in swimming efficiency as a potential alternative or contributing mechanism for the observed decreases in U-crit.
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