dc.contributor.author | Uren Webster, TM | |
dc.contributor.author | Williams, TD | |
dc.contributor.author | Katsiadaki, I | |
dc.contributor.author | Lange, A | |
dc.contributor.author | Lewis, C | |
dc.contributor.author | Shears, JA | |
dc.contributor.author | Tyler, CR | |
dc.contributor.author | Santos, EM | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-02-28T09:45:49Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017-03 | |
dc.description.abstract | Some fish populations inhabiting contaminated environments show evidence of increased chemical tolerance, however the mechanisms contributing to this tolerance, and whether this is heritable, are poorly understood. We investigated the responses of two populations of wild three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) with different histories of contaminant exposure to an oestrogen and copper, two widespread aquatic pollutants. Male stickleback originating from two sites, the River Aire, with a history of complex pollution discharges, and Siblyback Lake, with a history of metal contamination, were depurated and then exposed to copper (46μg/L) and the synthetic oestrogen ethinyloestradiol (22ng/L). The hepatic transcriptomic response was compared between the two populations and to a reference population with no known history of exposure (Houghton Springs, Dorset). Gene responses included those typical for both copper and oestrogen, with no discernable difference in response to oestrogen between populations. There was, however, some difference in the magnitude of response to copper between populations. Siblyback fish showed an elevated baseline transcription of genes encoding metallothioneins and a lower level of metallothionein induction following copper exposure, compared to those from the River Aire. Similarly, a further experiment with an F1 generation of Siblyback fish bred in the laboratory found evidence for elevated transcription of genes encoding metallothioneins in unexposed fish, together with an altered transcriptional response to 125μg/L copper, compared with F1 fish originating from the clean reference population exposed to the same copper concentration. These data suggest that the stickleback from Siblyback Lake have a differential response to copper, which is inherited by the F1 generation in laboratory conditions, and for which the underlying mechanism may include an elevation of baseline transcription of genes encoding metallothioneins. The genetic and/or epigenetic mechanisms contributing to this inherited alteration of metallothionein transcription have yet to be established. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | This work was funded by the UK NERC postgenomic and proteomic programme grant NE/C507661/1 and by a Fisheries Society of the British Isles research grant to EMS. Birmingham functional genomics facilities were funded by BBSRC grant 6/JIF13209. We thank R.E. Godfrey, S. Jondhale, A. Jones, and L. Klovrza for technical assistance, J.K. Chipman for help and support, and the Environment Agency for provision of water chemistry data. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 184, pp. 26 - 36 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.aquatox.2016.12.023 | |
dc.identifier.other | S0166-445X(16)30381-2 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/26096 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28081447 | en_GB |
dc.rights | © 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). | en_GB |
dc.subject | Adaptation | en_GB |
dc.subject | Freshwater | en_GB |
dc.subject | Metals | en_GB |
dc.subject | Pollution | en_GB |
dc.subject | Teleost | en_GB |
dc.title | Hepatic transcriptional responses to copper in the three-spined stickleback are affected by their pollution exposure history | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2017-02-28T09:45:49Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1879-1514 | |
exeter.place-of-publication | Netherlands | en_GB |
dc.description | This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from the publisher via the DOI in this record. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | Aquatic Toxicology | en_GB |
dc.identifier.pmid | 28081447 | |