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Impact of nickel mining in New Caledonia on marbled eels Anguilla marmorata

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New Caledonia is particularly affected by nickel open pit mining activities because of the presence of ultramafic soils rich in metal trace elements. The nickel particles dispersed by atmospheric transport and soil erosion during the excavation of nickel will end up by deposition or leaching in aquatic ecosystems where they may be bioaccumulated by living organisms in the rivers downstream the mines. Despite alarming freshwater metals concentrations, no study investigated the level of their bioaccumulation in eels living downstream mining sites, and if high bioaccumulation levels occur, the potential consequences on eel's health. The aim of this study was to determine how eels Anguilla marmorata are impacted in situ by metal concentrations issued from mining activity by measuring: morphometric parameters; metal concentrations in tissues and organs and transcription levels of target genes encoding proteins involved in several metabolic key functions. Among organs, liver was found to be the most affected by mining with average nickel concentrations of 5.14 mg/kg versus 1.63 mg/kg for eel liver away from mines leading to dysregulation of numerous genes involved in oxidative stress, DNA repair, apoptosis, reproduction and both lipid and mitochondrial metabolisms. This study should allow us to define in an integrated way if metals released by mining activities influence metals bioaccumulation in eels and induce biological effects.

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Ecotoxicologie
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hal-03798507 , version 1 (05-10-2022)

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Ophélie Germande, Peggy Gunkel-Grillon, Yannick Dominique, Agnès Feurtet-Mazel, Emilie Bierque, et al.. Impact of nickel mining in New Caledonia on marbled eels Anguilla marmorata. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2022, 436, pp.129285. ⟨10.1016/j.jhazmat.2022.129285⟩. ⟨hal-03798507⟩
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