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Article Dans Une Revue Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety Année : 2019

High temperature aggravates the effects of pesticides in goldfish

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In human-altered rivers, fish are often conjointly exposed to an increase in water temperature due to global warming and to a contamination by organic pollutants such as pesticides, but their combined effects are still elusive. Thermal and chemical stressors could potentially interact because high temperature increases metabolism and toxicant uptake, and can alter the ability of organisms to set up adequate stress responses and to maintain homeostasis. These combined stressors could thus potentially result in higher level of molecular and cellular damage, and stronger effects on behavior and physiology, but experimental evidence across biological levels is still scarce. In this study, goldfish Carassius auratus were experimentally exposed to an environmentally realistic cocktail of pesticides (S-metolachlor, isoproturon, linuron, atrazine-desethyl, aclonifen, pendimethalin and tebuconazol) commonly found in rivers of SouthWest of France at low or high dose in two different thermal conditions: a common summer temperature (22 °C) or a high temperature recorded during heat waves (32 °C). Results showed that high temperature alone caused behavioral and physiological changes (increased swimming activity, increased hepatosomatic index, decreased reproductive index) but limited cellular damage. However, high temperature aggravated the effects of pesticides at the molecular and cellular level. Indeed, pesticide exposure resulted in higher genotoxic effects (micronuclei rate) and irreversible cellular damage of the gills and liver (apoptosis, inflammation, necrosis) at 32 °C compared to 22 °C. This suggests potential synergistic effects of climate change and pollution, and highlights the need for multiple stress approaches to better predict the impacts of human activities on aquatic wildlife.
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hal-02063043 , version 1 (11-03-2019)

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L. Jacquin, A. Gandar, M. Aguirre-Smith, A. Perrault, M Le Hénaff, et al.. High temperature aggravates the effects of pesticides in goldfish. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 2019, 172, pp.255-264. ⟨10.1016/j.ecoenv.2019.01.085⟩. ⟨hal-02063043⟩
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