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Rotifers

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Abstract

Rotifers are widespread and abundant in aquatic ecosystems and are valuable live feeds in aquaculture and fisheries. They are particularly useful in evaluating full life cycle and population-level effects in response to pollutant exposures. Rotifers have, therefore, been considered as a promising species in aquatic ecotoxicology. The importance of using rotifers in aquatic ecotoxicology was constantly reviewed (Snell and Janssen Hydrobiologia 313/314:231–247, 1995; Dahms et al. Aquat Toxicol 101:1–12, 2011). This chapter will focus on discussing, with diverse examples, why rotifers became promising model species in ecotoxicology, taking into account their biological, physiological, and genomic information. Ecotoxicogenomic approaches using RNA-seq and genomic approaches will be demonstrated. In particular, the monogonont rotifer Brachionus sp. will be introduced as a target taxon for ecotoxicogenomic studies with substantial genetic information.

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Abbreviations

AhR:

Aryl hydrocarbon receptor

AOPs:

Adverse outcome pathways

B[a]P:

Benzo[a]pyrene

CYP:

Cytochrome P450

ERA:

Environmental risk assessment

EST:

Expressed sequence tags

GPx:

Glutathione peroxidase

GR:

Glutathione reductase

GSH:

Glutathione

GST:

Glutathione S-transferase

Hsps:

Heat shock proteins

IR:

Ionizing radiation

LC:

Lethal concentration

LD:

Lethal dose

MAPK:

Mitogen-activated protein kinase

MIEs:

Molecular initiating events

MWCNTs:

Multi-walled carbon nanotubes

ROS:

Reactive oxygen species

SOD:

Superoxide dismutase

SULTs:

Sulfotransferases

TPT:

Triphenyltin

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This work was supported by a grant (20140342, Development of techniques for assessment and management of hazardous chemicals in the marine environment) of the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries, Korea, funded to Jae-Seong Lee. H-U D acknowledges the support of the Asia-Pacific Ocean Research Center of the Department of Oceanography (No. 76211194) in the frame of KMU/NSYSU cooperation and MOST 104-2621-M-037-001 funded to T.H. SHIH.

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    Eun-Ji Won, Jeonghoon Han, Duck-Hyun Kim & Jae-Seong Lee

  2. Department of Biomedical Science and Environmental Biology, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, 80708, Taiwan, Republic of China

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  3. Department of Marine Biotechnology and Resources, National Sun Yat-sen University, No. 70, Lienhai Road, Kaohsiung, 80424, Taiwan, Republic of China

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Won, EJ., Han, J., Kim, DH., Dahms, HU., Lee, JS. (2017). Rotifers in Ecotoxicology. In: Hagiwara, A., Yoshinaga, T. (eds) Rotifers. Fisheries Science Series. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5635-2_10

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