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Fatty Acid 13C Isotopologue Profiling Provides Insight into Trophic Carbon Transfer and Lipid Metabolism of Invertebrate Consumers
Published on: April 17, 2018
Application of compound-specific stable carbon isotope analysis for the biotransformation and trophic dynamics of
Xiao-Jun Luo1, Yan-Hong Zeng, Hua-Shan Chen
1State Key Laboratory of Organic Geochemistry, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510640, China. luoxiaoj@gig.ac.cn
Abstract:
The debromination and trophic dynamics of PBDEs in fish and whether or not compound-specific isotopic analysis (CSIA) can be used to trace these processes were investigated. Two predator/prey relationships were established in laboratory by two predatory fish species, oscar fish (OF) and redtail catfish (RF) feeding on tiger barb (TB) exposed to a commercial PBDE mixture. Metabolic debromination of PBDEs was observed in the TB and the OF, but not in the RF. The calculated biomagnification factors (BMFs) were uniform for most of the congeners in RF/TB but varied in OF/TB, which can be attributed to the metabolic debromination in the OF. The δ(13)C values of BDE47 and BDE28 were lower in fish than in those in the commercial mixture but the δ(13)C values of BDE99 were slightly higher. These results indicated that CSIA can be used to trace the biotransformation of PBDEs in biota.
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