The Effect of Dietary Exposure to Coal Ash Contaminants within Food Ration on Growth and Reproduction in Daphnia magna

Teresa J. Mathews, Louise M. Stevenson, Paul C. Pickhardt, Cheryl A. Murphy, Roger M. Nisbet, Philipp Antczak, Natàlia Garcia-Reyero, Andre Gergs

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Abstract

Coal ash contains numerous contaminants and is the focus of regulatory actions and risk assessments due to environmental spills. We exposed Daphnia magna to a gradient of coal ash contamination under high and low food rations to assess the sublethal effects of dietary exposures. Whereas exposure to contaminants resulted in significant reductions in growth and reproduction in daphnids, low, environmentally relevant food rations had a much greater effect on these endpoints. Environ Toxicol Chem 2020;39:1998–2007.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1998-2007
Number of pages10
JournalEnvironmental Toxicology and Chemistry
Volume39
Issue number10
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 1 2020

Funding

The manuscript was authored in part by UT‐Battelle, under contract DE‐AC05‐00OR22725 with the US Department of Energy (DOE). The US government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the US government retains a nonexclusive, paid‐up, irrevocable, worldwide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for US government purposes. The DOE will provide public access to these results of federally sponsored research in accordance with the DOE Public Access Plan ( http://energy.gov/downloads/doe-public-access-plan ). The present study was conceived in the Modeling Molecules to Organisms Working Group at the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis, sponsored by the National Science Foundation through NSF Award DBI-1300426, with additional support from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (USA). Experimental work at Lakeland University, Plymouth, Wisconsin (USA) was carried out by B. Wilder-Corrigan, M. Runge, and C. Larson with designated funds from C. Feldmann and the Lakeland Undergraduate Research Experience. The Oak Ridge National Laboratory is managed by UT-Battelle, for the US Department of Energy under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725. Andre Gergs's current address is Bayer, Monheim, Germany. The present study was conceived in the Modeling Molecules to Organisms Working Group at the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis, sponsored by the National Science Foundation through NSF Award DBI‐1300426, with additional support from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (USA). Experimental work at Lakeland University, Plymouth, Wisconsin (USA) was carried out by B. Wilder‐Corrigan, M. Runge, and C. Larson with designated funds from C. Feldmann and the Lakeland Undergraduate Research Experience. The Oak Ridge National Laboratory is managed by UT‐Battelle, for the US Department of Energy under contract DE‐AC05‐00OR22725. Andre Gergs's current address is Bayer, Monheim, Germany.

Keywords

  • Coal ash
  • Daphnia magna
  • Dietary exposure
  • Food ration
  • Multiple stressors

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