Data collection on the use of embryo bioassays with aquatic animals for toxicity testing and hazard assessment of emerging pollutants

Ricardo Capela; Jeanne Garric; Luís Filipe Costa Castro; Miguel Machado Santos

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2020.105220

Data collection on the use of embryo bioassays with aquatic animals for toxicity testing and hazard assessment of emerging pollutants

Data Brief. 2020 Jan 31:29:105220. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2020.105220. eCollection 2020 Apr.

Authors

Ricardo Capela^{1

2

3}, Jeanne Garric³, Luís Filipe Costa Castro^{1

2}, Miguel Machado Santos^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ CIMAR/CIIMAR - Interdisciplinary Centre for Marine and Environmental Research, Av. General Norton de Matos s/n, 4450-208 Matosinhos, Portugal.
² FCUP - Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre s/n, 4169-007 Porto, Portugal.
³ IRSTEA - National Research Institute of Science and Technology for Environment and Agriculture - Centre de Lyon-Villeurbanne, 5 rue de la Doua, CS20244, 69625 Villeurbanne Cedex, Lyon-Villeurbanne, France.

Abstract

A thorough bibliographic survey on the use of embryo-tests with aquatic animals for toxicity testing was performed. The data regarding to the compounds sensitivity (NOEC, LOEC, EC50 and LC50), the available resources for the different animal models (knowledge on the life-cycle, amenability for laboratory breeding, number of embryos produced and reproductive strategy, genomic and transcriptomic resources), together with the European pieces of legislation regarding to animal testing and the available testing guidelines of national and international agencies (OECD, EPA, ISO, ASTM, ICES) were gathered, aiming to the standardization of new embryo-test model species for toxicity testing of new and existing compounds. The data contained in this Data in Brief article is presented and discussed in the review article with the title Embryo bioassays with aquatic animals for toxicity testing and hazard assessment of emerging pollutants: a review [1]. The dataset is provided with this article as a supplementary file.

Keywords: Aquatic metazoans; Embryo-tests; Legislation; OECD; Prioritization tests; Screening tools; Testing guidelines.