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A decadal study of biometric and imposex indices in two gastropods

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 June 2019

J. M. Ruiz Open the ORCID record for J. M. Ruiz [Opens in a new window] ,
B. Carro ,
N. Albaina ,
L. Couceiro ,
M. Quintela  and
R. Barreiro
J. M. Ruiz*
Affiliation:
Grupo BIOCOST, Centro de Investigacións Científicas Avanzadas (CICA), Depto. Biología, Facultade de Ciencias, Campus da Zapateira, Universidade da Coruña, 15071 Coruña,Spain
B. Carro
Affiliation:
Grupo BIOCOST, Centro de Investigacións Científicas Avanzadas (CICA), Depto. Biología, Facultade de Ciencias, Campus da Zapateira, Universidade da Coruña, 15071 Coruña,Spain
N. Albaina
Affiliation:
Grupo BIOCOST, Centro de Investigacións Científicas Avanzadas (CICA), Depto. Biología, Facultade de Ciencias, Campus da Zapateira, Universidade da Coruña, 15071 Coruña,Spain
L. Couceiro
Affiliation:
Grupo BIOCOST, Centro de Investigacións Científicas Avanzadas (CICA), Depto. Biología, Facultade de Ciencias, Campus da Zapateira, Universidade da Coruña, 15071 Coruña,Spain
M. Quintela
Affiliation:
Grupo BIOCOST, Centro de Investigacións Científicas Avanzadas (CICA), Depto. Biología, Facultade de Ciencias, Campus da Zapateira, Universidade da Coruña, 15071 Coruña,Spain
R. Barreiro
Affiliation:
Grupo BIOCOST, Centro de Investigacións Científicas Avanzadas (CICA), Depto. Biología, Facultade de Ciencias, Campus da Zapateira, Universidade da Coruña, 15071 Coruña,Spain
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Author for correspondence: J. M. Ruiz, E-mail: jmruiz@udc.es
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Abstract

We have monitored tributyltin (TBT) pollution in Galicia (NW Spain) for more than a decade by means of assessing gastropod imposex in populations of Nucella lapillus (N ≥ 34) and Tritia reticulata (N ≥ 18) at regular intervals. Several thousand specimens were processed to obtain their shell height (SH), penis length (PL) and vas deferens sequence (VDS); imposex indices (including the VDS index, VDSI) were subsequently calculated. The regional mean SH of both females and males has not changed significantly in either species throughout the study. This also applies to the mean male PL in N. lapillus, but male T. reticulata penises surprisingly enlarged. On the contrary, the regional mean female PL (MFPL) and all imposex indices significantly decreased in both snails. Results confirm previous conclusions based on the chemical analyses of tissues and partial imposex observations. In addition, the close correlations between MFPL and VDSI show some potential applications to TBT biomonitoring.

Keywords

BiometricsgastropodsimposexNucella lapilluspenis lengthshell lengthtributyltin (TBT)Tritia reticulatavas deferens sequence
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Research Article
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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 99 , Issue 7 , November 2019 , pp. 1601 - 1614
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2019 

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