Open AccessPlastics as vehicles of chemical compounds to marine organisms
Author(s) -
N. V. Dovzhenko,
Andrey Alexandrovich Mazur,
Sergey Petrovich Kukla,
Валентина Владимировна Слободскова,
Л. Ф. Колосова,
Aleksandra Istomina,
В. П. Челомин
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
iop conference series. earth and environmental science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.179
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1755-1307
pISSN - 1755-1315
DOI - 10.1088/1755-1315/548/4/042040
Subject(s) - mytilus , environmental chemistry , marine species , chemistry , environmental science , biology , fishery
Plastics in the marine environment are shown to be a source of toxic chemicals. To understand potential risk, we evaluated the toxicity of dirty and virgin plastic fragments on marine mussels Mytilus trossulus Gould, 1850. We simulated transfers of chemical compounds to marine water by air agitation. According to experiments, an exposure to plastic fragments induces oxidative stress and variations in the microelement composition in tissues of the mussels. A decrease in the activity of the antiradical link in mollusk tissues and a pronounced genotoxic effect of plastic are also reported.