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Behavioral and physiological response of the passerine bird agelaioides badius to seeds coated with imidacloprid.
2023
Poliserpi, Maria Belen | Abad, Tatiana Noya | De Geronimo, Eduardo | Aparicio, Virginia Carolina | Brodeur, Celine Marie
Neonicotinoids are globally used insecticides, and there are increasing evidence on their negative efects on birds. This study is aimed at characterizing the behavioral and physiological efects of the neonicotinoid imidacloprid (IMI) in a songbird. Adults of Agelaioides badius were exposed for 7 days to non-treated peeled millet and to peeled millet treated with nominal concentrations of 75 (IMI1) and 450 (IMI2) mg IMI/kg seed. On days 2 and 6 of the trial, the behavior of each bird was evaluated for 9 min by measuring the time spent on the foor, the perch, or the feeder. Daily millet consumption, initial and fnal body weight, and physiological, hematological, genotoxic, and biochemical parameters at the end of exposure were also measured. Activity was greatest on the foor, followed by the perch and the feeder. On the second day, birds exposed to IMI1and IMI2 remained mostly on the perch and the feeder, respectively. On the sixth day, a transition occurred to sec tors of greater activity, consistent with the disappearance of the intoxication signs: birds from IMI1 and IMI2 increased their time on the foor and the perch, respectively. Control birds always remained most of the time on the foor. IMI2 birds signifcantly decreased their feed intake by 31% the frst 3 days, compared to the other groups, and signifcantly decreased their body weight at the end of the exposure. From the set of hematological, genotoxic, and biochemical parameters, treated birds exhibited an alteration of glutathione-S-transferase activity (GST) in breast muscle; the minimal efects observed are probably related to the IMI administration regime. These results highlight that the consumption of less than 10% of the bird daily diet as IMI-treated seeds trigger efects at multiple levels that can impair bird survival. | Fil: Poliserpi, María Belén. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Instituto de Recursos Biológicos; Argentina | Fil: Abad, Tatiana Noya. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Departamento de Química Biológica; Argentina. Universidad Maimómides. Centro de Ciencias Naturales, Ambientales y Antropológicas; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina | Fil: De Gerónimo, Eduardo. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Balcarce; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. | Fil: Brodeur, Julie Céline. Consejo de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Instituto de Recursos Biológicos. Argentina | Fil: Aparicio, Virginia Carolina. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Balcarce; Argentina
Show more [+] Less [-]Detection of sea polluters with change in conditioned reflexive responses of fish
1998
Kovacevic, A. | Kovacevic, N. | Milosevic, I. | Gojkovic, M. (Institut za biologiju mora, Kotor (Yugoslavia))
This work is based on biotests being experimented at sea organisms - fish Serranus scriba. We were studying the activity of the mentioned fish in sublethal concentrations of organochloric pesticide - lindane. Besides the classic biotests, we used some new methods for neurotoxic testing that include the influence of this pesticide on circadian activity of fish as well as the variations in obtaining the positive conditioned reflexive responses. The results of these experiments show that this kind of fish reacts at the subtile changes of toxic concentration with the change of quality and rhythm in its conditioned reflexive reactions, that appeared earlier than other global signs of intoxication.
Show more [+] Less [-]The chemical and mineralogical behaviour of Pb in shooting range soils from central Sweden
1995
Lin, Z. | Comet, B. | Qvarfort, U. | Herbert, R. (Environmental Geology, Institute of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Norbyvagen 18B, S-752 36 Uppsala (Sweden))
Organism-induced accumulation of iron, zinc and arsenic in wetland soils
1997
Doyle, M.O. | Otte, M.L. (Department of Botany, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4 (Ireland))
Toxicity of crude oil to the mayfly, Hexagenia bilineata (Ephemeroptera: Ephemeridae)
1995
Ort, M.P. | Finger, S.E. | Jones, J.R. (Midwest Science Center, National Biological Survey, Department of the Interior, 4200 New Haven Rd, Columbia, MO 65201-9634 (USA))
Altered feeding preference of beech weevil Rhynchaenus fagi L. for beech foliage under ambient air pollution
1992
Hiltbrunner, E. | Fluckiger, W. (Institute for Applied Plant Biology, CH-4124 Schonenbuch (Switzerland))