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Micro and Nanoplastics in Freshwater Fauna: Sources, Quantification and Effects
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Micro and Nanoplastics in Freshwater Fauna: Sources, Quantification and Effects

A special issue of Biology (ISSN 2079-7737).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2023) | Viewed by 2035

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Silvia Galafassi

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Guest Editor
Water Research Institute, National Research Council, Verbania, Italy
Interests: microplastic; plastic pollution; ecology; food webs
Dr. Pietro Volta

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Guest Editor
Water Research Institute, National Research Council of Italy, IRSA-CNR, Largo Tonolli, 50, 28922 Verbania Pallanza, Italy
Interests: fish ecology; lacustrine food webs; invasive fish species; climate change; freshwater fish conservation; fisheries management
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Plastic is among the emerging contaminants that are raising more and more concern in the scientific community. Although research on plastic in the environment has received increasing attention in the last decade, research on the sources, quantification, and effect of plastic in freshwaters is still underrepresented in the scientific literature.

We are pleased to invite you to contribute to the Special Issue of the journal Biology titled “Micro and Nanoplastics in freshwater fauna: sources, quantification and effects”.

This Special Issue aims to collect original research articles and reviews on micro- and nanoplastic pollution in freshwater fauna with a focus on: the development, standardization, validation, and isolation protocols; the quantification of micro-/nanoplastics in freshwater fauna, their entry into the food chain, and transfer within the food webs; and their effects on organisms. Research studies and reviews can also consider species that partially spend their lives in freshwater or that inhabit transitional waters.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Silvia Galafassi
Dr. Pietro Volta
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • microplastics
  • nanoplastics
  • freshwater
  • anthropic impact
  • trophic chain
  • ingestion
  • exposition
  • toxicity

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Sublethal Biochemical Effects of Polyethylene Microplastics and TBBPA in Experimentally Exposed Freshwater Shrimp Palaemonetes argentinus
by Juan Manuel Ríos, Andres M. Attademo, Yoshifumi Horie, Paula María Ginevro and Rafael C. Lajmanovich
Biology 2023, 12(3), 391; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/biology12030391 - 1 Mar 2023
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The biochemical effects of sublethal exposure to polyethylene microplastics (PEM) of 40–48 µm particle size and the flame retardant tetrabromobisphenol A (TBBPA), a plastic additive, on the freshwater shrimp Palaemonetes argentinus were assessed. Here, we postulate that the use of enzyme and thyroid [...] Read more.
The biochemical effects of sublethal exposure to polyethylene microplastics (PEM) of 40–48 µm particle size and the flame retardant tetrabromobisphenol A (TBBPA), a plastic additive, on the freshwater shrimp Palaemonetes argentinus were assessed. Here, we postulate that the use of enzyme and thyroid hormones as biomarkers contributes to the knowledge of the effects of microplastics and plastic additives on freshwater crustaceans. To address this, we evaluated the activities of acetylcholinesterase (AChE), glutathione S-transferase (GST), and carboxilesterase (CbE, using 1-naphthyl acetate (NA) as substrate) and levels of the thyroid hormones thyroxine (T4) and triiodothyronine (T3) after shrimp were exposed (for 96 h) to these xenobiotics at environmentally realistic concentrations. The results showed that the mixture of both xenobiotics led to a decrease in AChE and GST activities and increased T4 levels. We suggest that physiological processes could be compromised in freshwater organisms when exposed to microplastics and TBBPA together, and this could ultimately affect upper levels of the food web. Full article
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