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ECB-ART-37869
Mar Environ Res 2001 Apr 01;513:191-211. doi: 10.1016/s0141-1136(00)00034-9.
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Influence of sample manipulation on contaminant flux and toxicity at the sediment-water interface.

Anderson BS , Hunt JW , Phillips BM , Fairey R , Puckett HM , Stephenson M , Taberski K , Newman J , Tjeerdema RS .


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Toxicities of sediments from San Diego and San Francisco Bays were compared in laboratory experiments using sea urchin (Strongylocentrotus purpuratus) embryos exposed to pore water and at the sediment-water interface (SWI). Toxicity was consistently greater to embryos exposed at the SWI to intact (unhomogenized) sediment samples relative to homogenized samples. Measurement of selected trace metals indicated considerably greater fluxes of copper, zinc, and cadmium into overlying waters of intact sediment samples. Inhibition of sea urchin embryo development was generally greater in sediment pore waters relative to SWI exposures. Pore water toxicity may have been due to elevated unionized ammonia concentrations in some samples. The results indicate that invertebrate embryos are amenable to SWI exposures, a more ecologically relevant exposure system, and that sediment homogenization may create artifacts in laboratory toxicity experiments.

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Genes referenced: LOC100887844