Bluegill

Mcute Toxicity of Mmmonium Molybdate andMolybdic Trioxide to Bluegill (Eepomis macrochirus) and Kainbow Trout (Salmogairdneri) Bioassay Report submitted to AMAX Inc., Bionomics, Inc., Wareham, Mass., Jan. 1975. 

Oris, J.T. and Giesy, J.P. (1986). Photoinduced toxicity of antracene to juvenile bluegill sun-fish photoperiod effects and predictive hazard evaluation. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 5, 761-768. 

Experimentally measured bioconcentration factors (BCFs), which provide an indication of the tendency of a chemical to partition to the fatty tissue of organisms, have been found to range between 10 and 100 for trichloroethylene in fish (Kawasaki 1980 Kenaga 1980 Neely et al. 1974 Veith et al. 1980). Barrows et al. (1980) estimated a value of 17 for bluegill sunfish. Somewhat lower BCFs were determined by Saisho et al. (1994) for blue mussel (4.52) and killifish (2.71). These numbers are suggestive of a low tendency to bioaccumulate. 

Barrows ME, Petrocelli SR, Macek KJ, et al. 1980. Bioconcentration and elimination of selected water pollutants by bluegill sunfish Lepomis macrochirus). In Haque R, ed. Dynamics, exposure and hazard assessment of toxic chemicals. Ann Arbor, MI Ann Arbor Science, 379-392. 

Barrows et al. (1978) measured a steady- state bioconcentration factor (BCF) of 48 in bluegill sunfish. Based on the relative proportion of fat in sunfish and other organisms, EPA (1980a) estimated a average BCF of about 30 for the edible portions of freshwater and marine species. 

McCarthy, J.F., Jimenez, B.D. (1985) Reduction in bioavailability to bluegills of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons bound to dissolved humic material. Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 4, 511-521. 

Spacie, A., Landrum, R.F., Leversee, G.J. (1983) Uptake, depuration and biotransformation of anthracene and benzo-o-pyrene in bluegill sunfish. Ecotox. Environ. Saf. 7, 330-341. 

Burrows WD, Rrenkel PA (1973) Studies on uptake and loss of methylmercury-203 by bluegills (Lepomis-Macrochirus Raf). Environ Sci Technol 7 1127-1130... 

Babich and Borenfreund135 compared in vitro cytotoxicities of inorganic lead and tri- and dialkyllead compounds in fish cells (bluegill sunfish, Lepomis macrochiru). 

One of the more sensitive indicators of cadmium exposure is the inhibition of non-thionein hepatic metal binding proteins inhibition was observed in juvenile bluegills (Lepomis macrochirus)... 

Cope, W.G., J.G. Wiener, and G.J. Atchison. 1994. Hepatic cadmium, metal-binding proteins and bioaccumulation in bluegills exposed to aqueous cadmium. Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 13 553-562. 

Eaton, J.G. 1974. Chronic cadmium toxicity to the bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus Rafinesque). Trans. Amer. Fish. Soc. 103 729-735. 

Heath, A.G. 1991. Effect of water-borne copper on physiological responses of bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus) to acute hypoxic stress and subsequent recovery. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. 100C 559-564. 

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