Patricia P Serafini, Bárbara P H Righetti, Ralph E T Vanstreels, Leandro Bugoni, Clei E Piazza, Daína Lima, Jacó J Mattos, Cristiane K M Kolesnikovas, Alice Pereira, Marcelo Maraschin, Isadora Piccinin, Tim Guilford, Luciana Gallo, Marcela M Uhart, Rafael A Lourenço, Afonso C D Bainy, Karim H Lüchmann
Anthropogenic pollution poses a threat to marine conservation by causing chronic toxic effects. Seabirds have contact throughout their lives with pollutants like plastic, metals, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and organochlorine pesticides such as hexachlorocyclohexanes (HCHs). We assessed 155 Manx shearwaters (Puffinus puffinus) stranded along the Brazilian coast, analyzing associations between organic pollutants, plastic ingestion, biomarkers (transcript levels of aryl hydrocarbon receptor, cytochrome P450-1A-5 [CYP1A5], UDP-glucuronosyl-transferase [UGT1], estrogen receptor alpha-1 [ESR1], and heat shock protein-70 genes) and enzymes activity (ethoxy-resorufin O-deethylase and glutathione S-transferase [GST])...
May 8, 2024: Marine Pollution Bulletin