Rearing and estimation of life-cycle parameters of the tubicifid worm Branchiura sowerbyi: Application to ecotoxicity testing

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 384, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 252-263

  Ducrot, Virginie ^a,b   Péry, Alexandre R R ^a   Quéau, Hervé ^a   Mons, Raphaël ^a   Lafont, Michel ^a   Garric, Jeanne ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b Ecology and Ecosystem Health   (France)

Author keywords

Laboratory cultures; Life cycle tests; Life history traits; Oligochaeta; Sediment toxicity testing; Test endpoints

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; ECOLOGY; FISH; SEDIMENTS; TOXICITY;

LABORATORY CULTURES; LIFE-CYCLE TESTS; OLIGOCHAETA; SEDIMENT TOXICITY TESTING; TEST ENDPOINTS;

BIODIVERSITY;

ORGANIC MATTER;

ACCLIMATION; CRUSTACEAN; ESTIMATION METHOD; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; LABORATORY METHOD; LIFE CYCLE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; ORGANIC MATTER; REPRODUCTION; TOXICITY TEST;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; ECOTOXICITY; FEEDING; FERTILITY; FOOD INTAKE; HATCHING; LIFE CYCLE; LIFESPAN; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; REARING; REPRODUCTION; SEDIMENT; SURVIVAL RATE; WORM;

ANIMALS; BREEDING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FERTILITY; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; LABORATORY ANIMAL SCIENCE; OLIGOCHAETA; TOXICITY TESTS;

BRANCHIURA SOWERBYI; TUBIFEX TUBIFEX;

EID: 34548132092     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2007.06.010     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. American Society for Testing Materials. Test Method for Measuring the Toxicity of Sediment-associated Contaminants with Freshwater Invertebrates (Report No E 1706 95-b) (2000), ASTM, Philadelphia, PA 18-23
2. Aston R.J. The effect of temperature on the life cycle, growth and fecundity of Branchiura sowerbyi (Oligochaeta, Tubifcidae). J Zool Lond 154 (1968) 29-40
3. Aston R.J. The culture of Branchiura sowerbyi (Tubificidae, Oligochaeta) using cellulose substrate. Aquaculture 40 (1984) 89-94
4. Aston R.J., and Milner A.G.P. Conditions required for the culture of Branchiura sowerbyi (Oligochaeta, Tubificidae) in activated sludge. Aquaculture 26 (1982) 155-160
5. Aston R.J., Sadler K., and Milner A.G.P. The effects of temperature on the culture of Branchiura sowerbyi (Oligochaeta, Tubificidae) on activated sludge. Aquaculture 29 (1982) 137-145
6. Bonacina C., Pasteris A., Bonomi G., and Marzuoli D. Quantitative observations on the population ecology of Branchiura sowerbyi (Oligochaeta, Tubificidae). Hydrobiologia 278 (1994) 267-274
7. Carroll J.H., and Dorris T.C. The life history of Branchiura sowerbyi. Am Midl Nat 87 (1972) 413-422
8. Casellato S. Life-cycle and karyology of Branchiura sowerbyi Beddard (Oligochaeta, Tubificidae). Hydrobiologia 115 (1984) 65-69
9. Casellato S., Aiello R., Negrisolo P.A., and Seno M. Long-term experiment on Branchiura sowerbyi Beddard (Oligochaeta, Tubificidae) using sediment treated with LAS (Linear Alkylbenzene Sulfonate). Hydrobiologia 232 (1992) 169-173
10. Chatarpaul L., Robinson J.B., and Kaushi N. Effects of tubificid worms on denitrification and nitrification in stream sediment. Can J Fish Aquat Sci 37 (1980) 656-663
11. Ducrot V., Usseglio-Polatera P., Péry A.R.R., Mouthon J., Lafont M., Roger M.-C., et al. Using aquatic macroinvertebrate species traits to build test batteries for sediment toxicity assessment: accounting for the diversity of potential biological responses to toxicants. Environ Toxicol Chem 24 (2005) 2306-2315
12. Dumnicka E., and Kasprzak K. Variability in certain anatomical and morphological characters in Oligochaeta. Bull Acad Pol Sci 27 (1979) 363-368
13. Fukuhara H., Kikuchi E., and Kurihara Y. The effect of Branchiura sowerbyi (Tubificidae) on bacterial populations in submerged rice field soil. Oikos 34 (1980) 88-93
14. Ingersoll C.G., Ankley G.T., Benoit D.A., Brunson E.L., Burton G.A., Dwyer F.J., et al. Toxicity and bioaccumulation of sediment-associated contaminants using freshwater invertebrates: a review of methods and applications. Environ Toxicol Chem 14 (1995) 1885-1894
15. Kooijman S.A.L.M. Dynamic Energy and Mass Budgets in Biological Systems. Second Edition (2000), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom
16. Liang Y. Annual production of Branchiura sowerbyi (Oligochaeta: Tubificidae) in the Donghu Lake, Wuhan, China. Chin J Oceanol Limnol 2 (1984) 102-108
17. Marchese M.R., and Brinkhurst R.O. A comparison of two tubificid oligochaete species as candidates for sublethal bioassay tests relevant to subtropical and tropical regions. Hydrobiologia 334 (1996) 163-168
18. Matisoff G., Wang X.S., and McCall P.L. Biological redistribution of lake sediments by tubificid oligochaetes: Branchiura sowerbyi, Limnodrilus hoffmeisteri and Tubifex tubifex. J Great Lakes Res 25 (1999) 205-219
19. Naitoh T., and Takabatake I. Observations on the tail movements and the contractions of the dorsal blood vessel and intestine in an anomalously double-tailed worm of Oligochaeta, Branchiura sowerbyi Beddard: a case report with implications for physiological mechanisms of contractility. Mem Fac Sci Shimane Univ 29 (1995) 45-50
20. Naqvi S.M.Z. Toxicity of twenty three insecticides to a tubificid worm Branchiura sowerbyi from the Mississippi delta. J Econ Entomol 66 (1973) 70-74
21. Poddubnaya T.L. In: Brinkhurst R.O., and Cook D.G. (Eds). Aquatic Oligochaete Biology (1980), Plenum press, New York 175-184
22. Raburu P., Mavuti K.M., Harper D.M., and Clark F.L. Population structure and secondary productivity of Limnodrilus hoffmeisteri (Claparede) and Branchiura sowerbyi Beddard in the profundal zone of Lake Naivasha, Kenya. Hydrobiologia 488 (2002) 153-161
23. Reynoldson T.B. Interactions between sediment contaminants and benthic organisms. Hydrobiologia 146 (1987) 53-66
24. Reynoldson T.B., Thompson S.P., and Bampsey J.L. A sediment bioassay using the tubificid oligochaete worm Tubifex tubifex. Environ Toxicol Chem 10 (1991) 1061-1072
25. Rodriguez P., Arrate J., Martinez-Madrid M., Reynoldson T.B., Schumacher V., and Viguri J. Toxicity of Santander Bay sediments to the euryhaline freshwater oligochaete Limnodrilus hoffmeisteri. Hydrobiologia 564 (2006) 157-169
26. US Environmental Protection Agency. AQUatic toxicity Information REtrieval Database (2007). http://cfpub.epa.gov/ecotox/ January, http://cfpub.epa.gov/ecotox/
27. Wang X., and Matisoff G. Solute transport in sediments by a large freshwater Oligochaete, Branchiura sowerbyi. Environ Sci Technol 31 (1997) 1926-1933