Pollution Polychaete

Athalye, R.P. and K.S. Gokhole. 1991. Heavy metals in the polychaete Lycastis ouanaryensis from Thane Creek, India. Mar. Pollut. Bull. 22 233-236. 

In the Fal estuary, England, long-term metal pollution over the past 120 years has resulted in zinc sediment levels between 679 and 1780 mg/kg DW, producing benthic communities that favor zinc-tolerant organisms, such as oysters and nereid polychaetes, and a general impoverishment of mussels, cockles, other polychaetes, and gastropods (Bryan et al. 1987). 

Grant, A., J.G. Hateley, and N.V. Jones. 1989. Mapping the ecological impact of heavy metals on the estuarine polychaete Nereis diversicolor using inherited metal tolerance. Mar. Pollut. Bull. 20 235-238. 

Rossi. S.S. and Neff. J.M. Toxicity of polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons to the polychaete Neanthes arenaceodentata. Mar. Pollut. Bull, 9 220-223. 1978. 

Gardner, W. S., Lee, R. F., Tenore, K. R. Smith, L. W. (1979). Degradation of selected polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in coastal sediments importance of microbes and polychaete worms. Water, Air, and Soil Pollution, 11, 339—47. 

Muhaya, B.B.M., M. Leermakers, and W. Baeyens. 1997. Total mercury and methylmercury in sediments and in the polychaete Nereis diversicolor at Groot Buitenschoor (Scheldt estuary, Belgium). Water Air Soil Pollut. 94 109-123. 

Levin L, Caswell H, Bridges T, DiBacco C, Cabrera D, Plaia G. 1996. Demographic responses of estuarine polychaetes to pollutants life-table response experiments. Ecol Appl 6 1295-1313. 

Courtney WAM, Langston WJ (1978) Uptake of polychlorinated biphenyl (Aroclor 1254) from sediment and from seawater in two intertidal polychaetes. Environ Pollut 15 303-309... 

Lee RF, Singer SC (1980) Detoxifying enzymes system in marine polychaetes increases in activity after exposure to aromatic hydrocarbons. In McIntyre AD, Pearce JB (eds) Biological effects of marine pollution and the problems of monitoring. Rapp P V Reun Cons Int Explor Mer 179 29-32 Lee RF, Sauerheber R, Benson AA (1972) Petroleum hydrocarbons uptake and discharge by the marine mussel Mytilus edulis. Science 177 344-346... 

Lee RF, Ryan C, Neuhauser ML (1976) Fate of petroleum hydrocarbons taken up from food and water by the blue crab Callinectes sapidus. Mar Biol 37 363-370 Lee RF, Furlong E, Singer S (1977) Metabolism of hydrocarbons in marine invertebrates aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase from the tissues of the blue crab, Callinectes sapidus and the polychaete worm. Nereis sp. In Giam CS (1977) Pollutant effects on marine organisms. Lexington, Lexington, pp 111-124... 

Roesijadi G, Anderson JW, Blaylock JW (1977) Uptake of hydrocarbons from marine sediments contaminated with Prudhoe Bay Crude Oil influence of feeding type of test species and availability of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. J Fish Res Board Can 35 608-614 Rossi SS (1977) Bioavailability of petroleum hydrocarbons from water, sediments and detritus to the marine annelid, Neanthes arenaceodentata. Proc. 1977 oil spill conference (Prevention, behaviour, control, cleanup) Washington DC, Am Petrol Inst, pp 621-626 Rossi SS, Anderson JW (1977) Accumulation and release of fuel-oil-derived diaromatic hydrocarbons by the polychaete Neanthes arenaceodentata. Mar Biol 39 51-55 Rossi SS, Anderson JW, Ward GS (1976) Toxicity of water-soluble fractions of four test oils for the polychaetous annelids, Neanthes arenaceodentata and Capitella capitata. Environ Pollut 10 9-18 Sanborn HR, Malins DC (1977) Toxicity and metabolism of naphthalene a study with marine larval invertebrates. Proc Soc Exp Biol Med 154 151-155 Sanborn HR, Malins DC (1980) The disposition of aromatic hydrocarbons in adult spot shrimp Pandalus platyceros) and the formation of metabolites of naphthalene in adult and larval spot shrimp. Xenobiotica 10 193-200... 

The terebellid polychaete Amphitrite omata inhabits polluted environments containing toxic haloaromatics produced by other organisms such as Notomastus lobatus. It has been shown that its ability to survive is due to the presence of a detoxyfying enzyme, hemoglobin Dehaloperoxidase (DHP) present in two forms encoded by different genes, dhpA and dhpB [1, 2]. 

Figure 20. Power-time curve of a polychaete (A/, viridis) of 71 mg at 10 C, a salinity of 5 %o and a moderate hypoxia. The larger bouts of heat production are due to locomotor activities, the smaller to ventilation. The period of pollution by sulphide is indicated [177],...

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