Abstract
Rotifers are widespread and abundant in aquatic ecosystems and are valuable live feeds in aquaculture and fisheries. They are particularly useful in evaluating full life cycle and population-level effects in response to pollutant exposures. Rotifers have, therefore, been considered as a promising species in aquatic ecotoxicology. The importance of using rotifers in aquatic ecotoxicology was constantly reviewed (Snell and Janssen Hydrobiologia 313/314:231–247, 1995; Dahms et al. Aquat Toxicol 101:1–12, 2011). This chapter will focus on discussing, with diverse examples, why rotifers became promising model species in ecotoxicology, taking into account their biological, physiological, and genomic information. Ecotoxicogenomic approaches using RNA-seq and genomic approaches will be demonstrated. In particular, the monogonont rotifer Brachionus sp. will be introduced as a target taxon for ecotoxicogenomic studies with substantial genetic information.
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- AhR:
-
Aryl hydrocarbon receptor
- AOPs:
-
Adverse outcome pathways
- B[a]P:
-
Benzo[a]pyrene
- CYP:
-
Cytochrome P450
- ERA:
-
Environmental risk assessment
- EST:
-
Expressed sequence tags
- GPx:
-
Glutathione peroxidase
- GR:
-
Glutathione reductase
- GSH:
-
Glutathione
- GST:
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Glutathione S-transferase
- Hsps:
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Heat shock proteins
- IR:
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Ionizing radiation
- LC:
-
Lethal concentration
- LD:
-
Lethal dose
- MAPK:
-
Mitogen-activated protein kinase
- MIEs:
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Molecular initiating events
- MWCNTs:
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Multi-walled carbon nanotubes
- ROS:
-
Reactive oxygen species
- SOD:
-
Superoxide dismutase
- SULTs:
-
Sulfotransferases
- TPT:
-
Triphenyltin
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This work was supported by a grant (20140342, Development of techniques for assessment and management of hazardous chemicals in the marine environment) of the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries, Korea, funded to Jae-Seong Lee. H-U D acknowledges the support of the Asia-Pacific Ocean Research Center of the Department of Oceanography (No. 76211194) in the frame of KMU/NSYSU cooperation and MOST 104-2621-M-037-001 funded to T.H. SHIH.
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Won, EJ., Han, J., Kim, DH., Dahms, HU., Lee, JS. (2017). Rotifers in Ecotoxicology. In: Hagiwara, A., Yoshinaga, T. (eds) Rotifers. Fisheries Science Series. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5635-2_10
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