@article {das_trace_2022,
	title = {Trace metals exposure in three different coastal compartments show specific morphological and reproductive traits across generations in a sentinel copepod},
	journal = {Science of The Total Environment},
	year = {2022},
	month = {nov},
	pages = {160378},
	abstract = {The effect of exposure from several compartments of the environment at the level of individuals were rarely investigated. This study reports the effect of contaminants from varied compartments like sediment resuspension, elutriation from resuspended sediment (extract) and seawater spiked trace metal mixtures (TM) on morphological and reproductive traits of the pelagic bioindicator copepod Eurytemora affinis. At the population level of E. affinis, lowest survival was observed in dissolved exposures (TM and extract) in the first generation (G1), showing some adaptation in the second generation (G2). An opposite trend for resuspended sediment showed higher sensitivity in survival at G2. At the individual level, prosome length and volume proved to be sensitive parameters for resuspended sediments, whereas clutch size and egg diameter were more sensitive to TM and extract. Although the generation of decontamination (G3, no exposure), showed a significant recovery at the population level (survival \% along with clutch size) of E. affinis exposed to resuspended sediment, morphological characteristics like prosome length and volume showed no such recovery (lower than control, p <0.05). To the contrary, dissolved exposure showed no significant recovery from G1 to G3 on neither survival \%, clutch size, egg diameter, prosome volume, but an increase of prosome length (p <0.05). Such tradeoffs in combatting the stress from varied sources of toxicity was observed in all exposures, from G1 to G3. The number of lipid droplets inside the body cavity of E. affinis showed a significant positive correlation with trace metal bioaccumulation (p <0.01) along with a negative correlation (p <0.05) with survival and clutch size in each treatment. This confirms the inability of copepods to utilize lipids under stressful conditions. Our study tenders certain morphological and reproductive markers that show specificity to different compartments of exposure, promising an advantage in risk assessment and fish feed studies.},
	keywords = {RCC1537},
	issn = {00489697},
	doi = {10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.160378},
	url = {https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0048969722074800},
	author = {Das, Shagnika and Souissi, Anissa and Ouddane, Baghdad and Hwang, Jiang-Shiou and Souissi, Sami}
}
@article {pan_effects_2021,
	title = {Effects of Epibiotic Diatoms on the Productivity of the Calanoid Copepod Acartia tonsa (Dana) in Intensive Aquaculture Systems},
	journal = {Frontiers in Marine Science},
	volume = {8},
	year = {2021},
	pages = {1386},
	abstract = {We evaluated here the effects of the epibiotic diatom Tabularia sp. on the productivity of the calanoid copepod Acartia tonsa (Dana) for assessing their risk on copepod intensive aquaculture industry for the provision of live feed. In the first experiment, uninfested and intensively infested females were cultivated individually for the assessment of egg production. Intensively infested females appeared to have a significantly lower egg production (5.0{\textendash}9.0 eggs/female/d) than uninfested females (22.0{\textendash}26.0 eggs/female/d) during 5 consecutive days. In the second experiment, effects of culture densities on diatom epibiosis were investigated in 9 L cultures at three different densities (200, 400, and 600 ind. L{\textendash}1). Another culture at higher volume (250 L) and lowest density (200 ind. L{\textendash}1) was also carried out to test the effect of culture volume on diatom epibiosis. The infestation rate (\%), infestation intensity (ratio of surface diatom coverage levels, classified as levels 0{\textendash}3) and daily egg harvest rate (number of harvested eggs per day per liter) were evaluated among the four culture populations. The copepods had higher infestation rate (53.69{\textendash}60.14\%) and intensity rate (high ratios at level 2 and 3) when the densities were increased from 200 ind./L to 400 and 600 ind./L. Although egg harvest increased with increasing culture density, it seemed that the diatom-infested A. tonsa population reach a saturated egg production when the density was higher than 400 ind./L. Nevertheless, the differences of culture volumes (250 and 9 L) appeared to be not to have any effect when the copepods were cultivated at the same density (200 ind./L). This study reveals for the first time that the epibiosis of the diatom Tabularia sp. reduces the individual egg production, and egg harvest rate in high-density culture of the copepod A. tonsa. Our findings implicate that diatom epibiosis should be avoid in copepod intensive culture systems.},
	keywords = {rcc, RCC350},
	issn = {2296-7745},
	doi = {10.3389/fmars.2021.728779},
	url = {https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmars.2021.728779},
	author = {Pan, Yen-Ju and Wang, Wei-Lung and Hwang, Jiang-Shiou and Souissi, Sami}
}
