Asellus aquaticus

Ham, L., R. Quinn, and D. Pascoe. 1995. Effects of cadmium on the predator-prey interaction between the turbellarian Dendrocoelum lacteum (Muller, 1974) and the isopod crustacean Asellus aquaticus (L.). Arch. Environ. Contam. Toxicol. 29 358-365. 

Fraser, J. 1980. Acclimation to lead in the freshwater isopod Asellus aquaticus. Oecologia 45 419-420. Friberg, L. 1988. The GESAMP evaluation of potentially harmful substances in fish and other seafood with special reference to carcinogenic substances. Aquat. Toxicol. 11 379-393. 

Recently, metapopulation models have been successfully applied to assess the risks of contaminants to aquatic populations. A metapopulation model to extrapolate responses of the aquatic isopod Asellus aquaticus as observed in insecticide-stressed mesocosms to assess its recovery potential in drainage ditches, streams, and ponds is provided by van den Brink et al. (2007). They estimated realistic pyrethroid concentrations in these different types of aquatic ecosystems by means of exposure models used in the European legislation procedure for pesticides. It appeared that the rate of recovery of Asellus in pyrethroid-stressed drainage ditches was faster in the field than in the isolated mesocosms. However, the rate of recovery in drainage ditches was calculated to be lower than that in streams and ponds (van den Brink et al. 2007). In another study, the effects of flounder foraging behavior and habitat preferences on exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls in sediments were assessed by Linkov et al. (2002) using a tractable individual-based metapopulation model. In this study, the use of a spatially and temporally explicit model reduced the estimate of risk by an order of magnitude as compared with a nonspatial model (Linkov et al. 2002). 

Green DWJ, Williams KA, Pascoe D. 1986. The acute and chronic toxicity of cadmium to different life history stages of the freshwater crustacean Asellus aquaticus (L.). Arch Environ Contam Toxicol 15 465-471. 

S. Rauch and G. M. Morrison, Platinum uptake by the freshwater isopod Asellus aquaticus in urban rivers, Sci. Total Environ., 235 (1999), 261D268. 

M. Moldovan, S. Rauch, M. M. G mez, M. A. Palacios, G. M. Morrison, Bioaccumulation of palladium, platinum, and rhodium from urban particulates and sediments by the freshwater isopod Asellus aquaticus, Water Res., 35 (2001), 4175D4183. 

Grafa, M. A. S., Maltby, L. Calow, P. (1993). Importance of fungi in the diet of Gammarus pulex and Asellus aquaticus II. Effects on growth, reproduction and physiology. Oecologia, 96, 304-9. 

Among freshwater leeches, the Old-World Erpobdella octoculata feeds on prey such as Tubifex spp., Chironomus spp., and Asellus aquaticus. Living and freshly killed larvae of Chironomus sp., Tubifex sp., and A. aquaticus attract these leeches. Amino acids such as histidine and glutamic acid are the active stimuli (Kreuter et al. 2008). 

The question then arises of the extent to which any nonlethal effect is reversible after removal of the toxicant. The answer seems to be that in the few cases which have been examined, this may indeed be the case all of them have examined phenolic compounds, one (McCahon et al. 1990) using the crustacean Asellus aquaticus, one assessing respiratory/cardiovascular effects on rainbow trout (Bradbury et al. 1989), and the third (Neilson et al. 1990) using the embryo/larvae assay with zebra fish (Brachydanio rerio). The last of these has been developed into a protocol that is modeled on the standard bioconcentration procedure in which a period of depuration is included after exposure to the toxicant. 

Peeters ETHM, Camu JM, Beijer JAJ, Scheffer M, Gardeniers JPP. 2002. Response of the waterlouse Asellus aquaticus to multiple stressors effects of current velocity and mineral substratum. J Aquatic Ecosyst Stress Recov 9 193-203. 

De Lange. H.J.. De Haas. E.M., Maas, H. and Peeters, E.T.H.M. (2005) Contaminated sediments and bioassay responses of three macroinvertebrates, the midge larva Chironomus riparius, the water louse Asellus aquaticus and the mayfly nymph Ephoron virgo, Chemosphere. 61, pp. 1700-1709. 

Bertin A, Cezilly F (2003) Sexual selection, antennae length and the mating advantage of large males in Asellus aquaticus. J Evol Biol 16 491-500... 

Heimann P (1984) Fine structure and moulting of aesthetasc sense organs on the antennules of the isopod, Asellus aquaticus (Crustacea). Cell Tiss Res 235 117-128... 

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