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| Author(s): |
Carlos Eduardo Tolussi
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Biociências (IBIOC/SB) |
| Defense date: | 2016-11-04 |
| Examining board members: |
Renata Guimarães Moreira Whitton;
Elizete Rizzo Bazzoli;
Maria Ines Borella;
Tiago Gabriel Correia
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| Advisor: | Renata Guimarães Moreira Whitton |
| Abstract | |
The ecotoxicology has arisen as a need to evaluate and mitigate the anthropic impacts in wild environmental and in the local communities, using several bioassays and wild experiments. Among the several studied areas, the reproduction is a process that can have its performance reduced due to the anthropic impacts, showing the importance of studying these processes in ecotoxicologydy. The aim of this study was to evaluate the influence of the impaired environmental in the physiological processes associated with oocyte maturation of Astyanax fasciatus females. Astyanax fasciatus females were sampled between 2012 and 2014 and males (as indicators of the presence of estrogenic compounds) from 2013 to 2014, with two samplings at each season, in two reservoirs, Ponte Nova (reference) and Billings (impacted). Sediments and water were sampled in the same sites to evaluate the chemical and physical parameters. The results of the analysis were compared with the CONAMA/357 guidelines and the hazard risk was calculated. The gene expression of vitellogenin and estradiol receptor, vitellogenin and estradiol plasma level were performed in males and females. The relative and absolute fecundity, gonad histology, gonadosomatic and hepatosomatic index were evaluated only in females. The hazard risk at Billings reservoir was high for organic compounds and metals. Estradiol levels and vitellogenin gene expression were higher in males sampled in Billings in the spring/2013, as well as the relative and absolute fecundity, that were higher in the winter and spring of the same year, when compared with the animals from the reference site (Ponte Nova). These outcomes suggest that during winter and spring of 2013 the pollutants, as analyzed in this study, as well as others that were not detected, may have interfered in the reproductive process of A. fasciatus at Billings reservoir. However, it is necessary to observe that these alterations might, at a given time, impair the oocyte maturation process, being important to monitor and accomplish additional studies of the environmental risk assessment at Billings reservoir (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 11/15453-5 - Influence on anthropic action in aquatic environment on vitellogenesis in teleost fish |
| Grantee: | Carlos Eduardo Tolussi |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |