Effects of ingested polystyrene microplastics on brine shrimp, Artemia parthenogenetica
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Microplastics are a contaminant of emerging concern which enter the marine environment from a variety of sources. The ingestion and toxic effects of microplastics on marine life, especially for filter feeders, are a cause of concern in view of their ubiquitous nature and their similar size as food sources. To assess the toxic effects of microspheres ingested by brine shrimp larvae, we exposed Artemia parthenogenetica to 10 μm polystyrene microspheres at different concentrations. These concentrations were approximate to the extrapolated marine aquatic environmentally relevant concentrations. The lowest polystyrene concentrations at which ingestion was visualized in A. parthenogenetica were 12 ± 0.57 particles/mL (6.7 ± 0.32 μg/L) and 1.1 ± 0.16 particles/mL (0.61 ± 0.088 μg/L), respectively. There were no significant impacts on the survival, growth or development in A. parthenogenetica occurring over the 14-d exposure across a range of polystyrene nominal concentrations (1-1000 particles/mL or 0.55-550 μg/L). However, abnormal ultrastructures of intestinal epithelial cells were observed upon exposure to polystyrene microspheres, including fewer and disordered microvilli, an increased number of mitochondrion and the appearance of autophagosome. These phenomena could affect nutrition absorption and energy metabolism. Although no major acute or chronic toxicity effects on A. parthenogenetica were observed over 24-h or 14-d exposures, this study provides evidence that the ingestion of polystyrene microplastics at extrapolated environmentally relevant concentrations can be visualized through a microscope to be causing a series of responses in intestinal epithelial cells.
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The null effect of microplastics in this study is consistent with other community-level studies and parallels results from single-species laboratory studies that used low or environmentally relevant exposure concentrations.
“The null effect of microplastics observed in our study not only was consistent with other community-level studies but also parallels results from single-species laboratory studies that used low-or environmentally relevant exposure concentrations (Schell et al., 2022;Wang et al., 2019).”
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- Authors
- Wang, Y., Zhang, D., Zhang, M., Mu, J., Ding, G., Mao, Z., Cao, Y., Jin, F., Cong, Y., Wang, L., Zhang, W., & Wang, J.
- Affiliations
- State Oceanic Administration (CN)
- Dalian Maritime University (CN)
- Corresponding author
- Wang, Ying
- Wang, Lijun
- Wang, Juying
- Venue
- Environmental Pollution
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2019-01
- Volume
- 244
- Pages
- 715-722
- ISSN
- 0269-7491 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2894769863
- Cited by
- 148
- References
- 41
- Citations by year
- 2026: 15 · 2025: 12 · 2024: 22 · 2023: 20 · 2022: 22 · 2021: 24 · 2020: 20 · 2019: 13
- FWCI
- 5.34
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Environmental Pollution (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (41776118, 51479016)
- National Basic Research Program of China (2016YFC1402204)
- Special Fund for Forest Scientific Research in the Public Welfare (201505034)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Pollution › Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis › Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Pollution › Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
- Keywords
- polystyrene microplastics, Artemia parthenogenetica, microplastic ingestion, filter feeders, microvilli, autophagosomes, mitochondrial proliferation, environmentally relevant concentrations, brine shrimp larvae
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Artemia, Eating, Epithelial Cells, Intestinal Mucosa, Larva, Microspheres, Polystyrenes, Water Pollutants, Chemical
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