Variability in mentum deformities of Tanytarsus larvae(Diptera,Chironomidae)in a metal rich basin in Northern Mexico  

作　　者：Orestes Carlos Bello-Gonzalez Perla Alonso-EguíaLis Cesar Arturo Ilizaliturri Hernandez Norman Mercado-Silva 

机构地区：[1]Centro de Investigacion en Biodiversidad y Conservacion,Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Morelos,Cuernavaca,Morelos,Mexico [2]Instituto Mexicano de Tecnología del Agua,Jiutepec,Morelos,Mexico [3]Facultad de Medicina-Centro de Investigacion Aplicada en Ambiente y Salud,Universidad Autonoma de San Luis Potosí,Coordinacion para la Aplicacion de la Ciencia y la Tecnología-(CIACyT-CIAAS),San Luis Potosí,Mexico

出　　处：《Water Biology and Security》2022年第2期1-9,共9页水生生物与安全（英文）

基　　金：This project was carried out with support from CONACYT to OCBG(Author)via Graduate(MS)Scholarship No:903227;Support was also provided by project 84460256 to the Instituto Mexicano de Tecnología del Agua and project PRODEP project DSA/103.5/15/3073 to NMS(Author).

摘　　要：Mentum deformities in chironomids have been commonly used as indicators of metal contamination in freshwater ecosystems.Incidence of these deformities suggests sublethal effects and can provide early signals of environmental deterioration.While anthropogenic metal pollution is known to lead to an increase in deformities in chironomids,natural background deformity incidence information is key to their effective use as biomonitoring tools.Here we explore the incidence of deformities from 5000 Tanytarsus(Diptera,Chironomidae)menta in relation to water physicochemical,and sediment metal(Al,As,Cu,Fe,Mn,Pb,Zn)concentration data from numerous sites in the naturally metal-rich Sonora River(NW Mexico)obtained over a two-year period.Higher metal concentrations were found in the upper basin.Higher salinity,total suspended solids and conductivity were found in the lower basin.Only As and Cu were occasionally found above published threshold effect levels(TEL).The proportion of deformities(%D)was low(2.1%)and a generalized linear model only explained 25.36%of%D variability among samples;this model included several physicochemical parameters.The only metal significantly related to deformities was Cu.Despite significant spatial and temporal variability in all metal concentrations and other physicochemical parameters in the basin,we were unable to explain a strong relationship between metal concentration and deformity incidence.Our results,based on consistent%D quantification from 5000 samples from a single taxon,suggest that natural variation in metal concentrations,even when statistically significant,is not associated with notable variations in the incidence of deformities.

关 键 词：MACROINVERTEBRATE Pollution Sonora river Desert river Copper Arsenic 

分 类 号：Q178.1[生物学—水生生物学]