期刊
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
卷 631-632, 期 -, 页码 421-428出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.03.054
关键词
Microplastics; Daphnia magna; Transgenerational study; Developmental and reproductive toxicity; Human health warning
资金
- PLASTICGLOBAL project
The environmental contamination by microplastics is a global challenge to ecosystem and human health, and the knowledge on the long-term effects of such particles is limited. Thus, the effects of microplastics and post-exposure recovery were investigated over 4 generations (F-0, F-1, F-2, F-3) using Daphnia magna as model. Effect criteria were parental mortality, growth, several reproductive parameters, and population growth rate. Microplastics exposure (0.1 mg/l of pristine polymer microspheres 1-5 mu m diameter) caused parental mortality (10-100%), and significantly (p <= 0.05) decreased growth, reproduction, and population growth rate leading to the extinction of the microplastics-exposed model population in the F-1 generation. Females descending from those exposed to microplastics in F-0 and exposed to clean medium presented some recovery but up to the F-3 generation they still had significantly (p <= 0.05) reduced growth, reproduction, and population growth rate. Overall, these results indicate that D. magna recovery from chronic exposure to microplastics may take several generations, and that the continuous exposure over generations to microplastics may cause population extinction. These findings have implications to aquatic ecosystem functioning and services, and raise concern on the long-term animal and human exposure to microplastics through diverse routes. (C) 2018 Published by Elsevier B.V.
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