Direct and indirect effects of chemical contaminants on the behaviour, ecology and evolution of wildlife

M Saaristo, T Brodin, S Balshine… - … of the Royal …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Chemical contaminants (eg metals, pesticides, pharmaceuticals) are changing ecosystems
via effects on wildlife. Indeed, recent work explicitly performed under environmentally …

Critical review: Grand challenges in assessing the adverse effects of contaminants of emerging concern on aquatic food webs

E Nilsen, KL Smalling, L Ahrens, M Gros… - Environmental …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Much progress has been made in the past few decades in understanding the sources,
transport, fate, and biological effects of contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) in aquatic …

Cancer in wildlife: patterns of emergence

PA Pesavento, D Agnew, MK Keel… - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2018 - nature.com
Cancer is ubiquitous in wildlife, affecting animals from bivalves to pachyderms and
cetaceans. Reports of increasing frequency demonstrate that neoplasia is associated with …

RAD sequencing reveals within‐generation polygenic selection in response to anthropogenic organic and metal contamination in North Atlantic Eels

M Laporte, SA Pavey, C Rougeux, F Pierron… - Molecular …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Measuring the effects of selection on the genome imposed by human‐altered environment is
currently a major goal in ecological genomics. Given the polygenic basis of most phenotypic …

The four cornerstones of evolutionary toxicology

JW Bickham - Ecotoxicology, 2011 - Springer
Evolutionary Toxicology is the study of the effects of chemical pollutants on the genetics of
natural populations. Research in Evolutionary Toxicology uses experimental designs …

[HTML][HTML] Biomarkers of exposure for assessing environmental metal pollution: from molecules to ecosystems

P Mussali-Galante, E Tovar-Sánchez… - Revista internacional …, 2013 - scielo.org.mx
Metals are among the most prevalent substances released into the environment that have a
profound effect on living organisms. Chronic environmental exposures usually exert a …

Evolutionary approach for pollution study: The case of ionizing radiation

C Car, L Quevarec, A Gilles, D Réale… - Environmental Pollution, 2024 - Elsevier
Estimating the consequences of environmental changes, specifically in a global change
context, is essential for conservation issues. In the case of pollutants, the interest in using an …

Contaminant driven genetic erosion and associated hypotheses on alleles loss, reduced population growth rate and increased susceptibility to future stressors: an …

R Ribeiro, I Lopes - Ecotoxicology, 2013 - Springer
Microevolution due to pollution can occur mainly through genetic drift bottlenecks, especially
of small sized populations facing intense lethal pulses of contaminants, through mutations …

Mitochondrial DNA mutagenesis: feature of and biomarker for environmental exposures and aging

TC Leuthner, JN Meyer - Current environmental health reports, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Mitochondrial dysfunction is a hallmark of aging. Mitochondrial
genome (mtDNA) instability contributes to mitochondrial dysfunction, and mtDNA …

Unusual evolution of tree frog populations in the Chernobyl exclusion zone

C Car, A Gilles, O Armant, P Burraco… - Evolutionary …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Despite the ubiquity of pollutants in the environment, their long‐term ecological
consequences are not always clear and still poorly studied. This is the case concerning the …