Synthesized effects of medium-term exposure to seawater acidification and microplastics on the physiology and energy budget of the thick shell mussel Mytilus coruscus

Yanming Sui; Tao Zhang; Xinyun Yao; Ming Yan; Liguo Yang; Mohamed Mohsen; Haidang Nguyen; Shengmao Zhang; Hucheng Jiang; Linlan Lv; Liang Zheng

doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2022.119598

Synthesized effects of medium-term exposure to seawater acidification and microplastics on the physiology and energy budget of the thick shell mussel Mytilus coruscus

Environ Pollut. 2022 Sep 1:308:119598. doi: 10.1016/j.envpol.2022.119598. Epub 2022 Jun 16.

Authors

Yanming Sui¹, Tao Zhang², Xinyun Yao³, Ming Yan³, Liguo Yang⁴, Mohamed Mohsen⁵, Haidang Nguyen⁶, Shengmao Zhang⁴, Hucheng Jiang⁷, Linlan Lv³, Liang Zheng⁸

Affiliations

¹ College of Marine and Biological Engineering, Yancheng Institute of Technology, Yancheng, China; East China Sea Fishery Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Shanghai, China; Department of Marine Biology, Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany.
² Zhejiang Province Key Lab of Mariculture and Enhancement, Marine Fisheries Research Institute of Zhejiang, Zhoushan, China.
³ College of Marine and Biological Engineering, Yancheng Institute of Technology, Yancheng, China.
⁴ East China Sea Fishery Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Shanghai, China.
⁵ CAS Key Laboratory of Marine Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China.
⁶ Research Institute for Aquaculture, No.1, Dinh Bang, Tu Son, Bac Ninh, 16352, Viet Nam.
⁷ Freshwater Fisheries Research Institute of Jiangsu Province, Nanjing, China.
⁸ East China Sea Fishery Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Shanghai, China. Electronic address: kingfishercheng@163.com.

PMID: 35718043
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2022.119598

Abstract

Ocean acidification (OA) and microplastics (MPs) contamination are two results of human excises. In regions like estuarine areas, OA and MPs exposure are happening at the same time. The current research investigated the synthesized effects of OA and MPs exposure for a medium-term duration on the physiology and energy budget of the thick shell mussel Mytilus coruscus. Mussels were treated by six combinations of three MPs levels (0, 10 and 1000 items L^-1) × two pH levels (7.3, 8.1) for 21 d. As a result, under pH 7.3, clearance rate (CR), food absorption efficiency (AE), respiration rate (RR), and scope for growth (SFG) significantly decreased, while the fecal organic dry weight ratio (E) significantly increased. 1000 items L^-1 MPs led to decrease of CR, E, SFG and increase of AE under pH 8.1. Interactive effects from combination of pH and MPs were found in terms of CR, AE, E and RR, but not for SFG of M. coruscus.

Keywords: Interactive effects; Low pH stress; Microplastics exposure; Physiological response related to energy; Thick shell mussel.

MeSH terms

Animals
Humans
Hydrogen-Ion Concentration
Microplastics
Mytilus* / physiology
Plastics / pharmacology
Seawater

Substances

Microplastics
Plastics