Toxicology of Amphibian Tadpoles

About this book

Anuran amphibians are among the animal groups with the highest rate of population decline on the planet. Among the factors driving this decline are environmental pollutants, whose negative effects on larvae and tadpoles are still relatively little studied. This is the first book devoted entirely to studying the effects of environmental pollutants on amphibian tadpoles. Throughout its 14 chapters, various aspects of the toxic effects of different classes of environmental contaminants are explored, such as the toxicokinetics of toxic compounds in tadpoles and their health effects, which may result in negative consequences at population level.

Contents

- How Pollutants are Affecting Amphibian Tadpoles: Relationship with Anthropogenic Pollutants and Perspectives for the Future / Renan Nunes Costa, Fernanda Franco, Mirco Solé, Denise de Cerqueira Rossa-Feres and Fausto Nomura
- The Importance of Tadpole Staging in Ecotoxicological Studies / Suelen Cristina Grott, Camila Fatima Rutkoski and Eduardo Alves de Almeida
- Toxicokinetic Pathways of Environmental Contaminants in Amphibian Tadpoles / Daniel Schlenk and Eduardo Alves de Almeida
- Hierarchical Levels of Biomarkers in Amphibian Tadpoles Exposed to Contaminants: From Enzyme Disruptions to Etho-Toxicology Studies in Argentina / Paola Mariela Peltzer, Ana Paula Cuzziol Boccioni, Attademo Andres Maximiliano, Lucila Marilén Curi, María Teresa Sandoval, Agustín Bassó, Candela Soledad Martinuzzi, Evelina Jésica León, Rafael Fernando Lajmanovich and Rafael Carlos Lajmanovich
- Effects of Pollutants on the Endocrine System of Tadpoles / Katharina Ruthsatz and Julian Glos
- Pollutants and Oxidative Stress in Tadpoles / Juliane Silberschmidt Freitas
- Genotoxicity and Mutagenicity in Anuran Amphibians / Daniela de Melo e Silva, Tiago Quaggio Vieira, Marcelino Benvindo de Souza, Flávia Regina de Queiroz Batista, Hugo Freire Nunes, Alessandro Ribeiro Morais and Eduardo Alves de Almeida
- Pollutant Effects on Immune Defense Cells of Anuran Tadpoles / Camila Fatima Rutkoski and Eduardo Alves de Almeida
- Pollutant Effects on Tadpole’s Microbiota / Gustavo Henrique Pereira Gonçalves and Eduardo Alves de Almeida
- Effects of Pharmaceutical Compounds in Tadpoles / Claudia Bueno dos Reis Martinez and Aline Aguiar
- Pesticide Effects on Tadpole’s Survival / Marilia Hartmann, Paulo Afonso Hartmann and Caroline Müller
- Pesticide Effects on Growth and External Morphology of Larvae and Metamorphs (Amphibia, Anura): Evidence From Experimental Studies / Renan Nunes Costa, Amanda Gomes dos Anjos, Fausto Nomura and Mirco Solé
- Ecotoxicological Impacts of Metals on Amphibian Tadpoles / Cleoni dos Santos Carvalho and Felipe Augusto Pinto-Vidal
- Developmental Abnormalities in Tadpoles as Biomarkers to Assess the Ecotoxicity of Traditional and Emerging Pollutants / Raquel Fernanda Salla, Felipe Augusto Pinto-Vidal, Guilherme Andrade Neto Schmitz Boeing, Michele Provase, Elisabete Tsukada and Thiago Lopes Rocha

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Biography

Eduardo Alves de Almeida is a biologist with a PhD in Biochemistry and a full professor at the Regional University of Blumenau, Brazil. He has extensive experience in ecotoxicology, working since 1996 on the effects of environmental pollutants on aquatic vertebrates and invertebrates. He currently coordinates the Center for Studies in Aquatic Toxicology, at the Regional University of Blumenau, where he conducts studies on the effects of pesticides and pharmaceutical compounds on amphibian tadpoles.

Juliane Silberschmidt Freitas is a biologist with a PhD in Animal Biology from the State University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Her PhD internship was held at the University of California (UCR) and her postdoctoral in Ecotoxicology at the University of Sao Paulo (USP). Research on amphibians began in 2008 and since 2013 she has been dedicated to understanding the impacts of contaminants on tadpoles. Currently, she teaches Animal Physiology at the University of Minas Gerais (UEMG).