Biomarkers of Genotoxicity for In Situ Studies at Individual and Population Levels - Ecological Biomarkers: Indicators of Ecotoxicological Effects - page 332

TABLE 13.1
DNA Adducts Measured in Vertebrates (Fish) or Invertebrates Collected In Situ in Rivers or in Estuaries and Exposed to Hydrocarbons Released
by Oil Spills (Shaded) or Produced by Anthropogenic Activities

Other
Measurement
Biliary
Metabolites

Sampling
+ x months
(m.) Period

Adducts a
Nb/10 9
Nucleotides

ΣHAP ng/g d.w.
Mussel Tissues
or in Sediments

Station Site
or Point (pt) Sites Organisms Authors

Oil spill accident
Aegean sea.
Dec. 1992
Galicia (ES)

Mytilus edulis Reference

oiled (3 pts)

+6 m. 2.0 ± 1.6

110 ± 18; 699 ±
196; 1280 ± 373

ΣHAP 13 27

307; 131;
216

ng/g dry
weight

Solé et al. 1996

Sea Empress
Feb. 1996
South Wales
(UK)

Lipophrys pholis oiled pt 2

oiled pt 2
oiled pt 2

+2 m. 477 ± 24 gills

437 ± 81 liver
254 ± 13 ovary/
testis

THC
μg/g d.w .

22.0 ± 4.1 +11 m.,

17 m.: ND

Harvey et al.
1999

Pleuronectes
platessa

non oiled pt
oiled pt 4

+3 m. 22 ± 19

155 ± 50

THC
μg/g d.w.

ref: ND
point 4: 1.9

No adducts in
invertebrates:

Limanda limanda non oiled pt

oiled pt 7
oiled pt 7

+5 and 16 m.
+5 m.
+16 m.

ND
12 ± 4
71 ± 20

THC
μg/g d.w.

point 7: ND
ND

Mytilus edulis
Halichondria
panicea

Erika
Dec. 1999
South Britain
Sud (F)

Mytilus edulis Chemoulin

Chemoulin
Tresson
Tresson
other sites

+1m.
+4 m.
+4 m.
+13 m.
+13 m.

110
39
21
22
< 10

Ref: 50-200
Polluted:
200-1500

Bocquené et al.
2004

Solea solea
Juveniles

Pertuis,
Bourgneuf

+2 m. 90 Pertuis -

290 Bourgneuf Bay
20 Pertuis -
50 Bourgneuf Bay

Amat et al. 2006

+9 m.

Puget Sound
(Washington)
(USA)

Pleuronectes
vetulus

Duwamish
Waterway
Polnell Pt

ΣPCB 8
ΣPA H 18
ΣPCB 8
ΣPA H 18

570 ng/g f.w. sed.
3600 ng/g f.w.
28 ng/g f.w. sed.
21 ng/g f.w. sed.

biliary FACs
250 ng/mg prot.
41 ng/mg prot.

Myers et al.
1998b
Stein et al. 1992

140 ± 27
35 ± 1