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Fish from urban rivers and with high pollutant levels have shorter telomeres

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Environmental pressures, such as urbanization and exposure to pollutants may jeopardize survival of free-living animals. Yet, much remains to be known about physiological and ecological responses to currently-released pollutants, especially in wild vertebrate ectotherms. We tested the effect of urbanization and pollution (phthalates, organochlorine and pyrethroid pesticides, polychlorobiphenyls, polybromodiphenylethers, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, and some of their metabolites) on telomere length, a suggested biomarker of life expectancy, in the European chub, Squalius cephalus, from urban and agricultural rivers of the Marne hydrographic network, France. We showed that telomere length was reduced in chub from urban rivers. Moreover, among the wide range of anthropogenic contaminants investigated, high levels of phthalate metabolites in liver were associated with shorter telomeres. This study suggests that urbanization and chemical pollution may compromise survival of wild fish, by accelerating telomere attrition.
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hal-03822197 , version 1 (25-10-2022)

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Noëlie Molbert, Frédéric Angelier, Fabrice Alliot, Cécile Ribout, Aurélie Goutte. Fish from urban rivers and with high pollutant levels have shorter telomeres. Biology Letters, 2021, 17 (1), ⟨10.1098/rsbl.2020.0819⟩. ⟨hal-03822197⟩
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