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Título: Unpalatable Plastic: Efficient Taste Discrimination of Microplastics in Planktonic Copepods
Autores/as: Xu, Jiayi
Rodríguez Torres, Rocío
Rist Rist,Sinja 
Nielsen, Torkel Gissel
Hartmann, Nanna Bloch
Brun, Philipp
Li, Daoji
Almeda García, Rodrigo 
Clasificación UNESCO: 240119 Zoología marina
310507 Hábitos de alimentación
331210 Plásticos
Palabras clave: Zooplankton
Copepods
Feeding behavior
Microplastic
Taste discrimination
Fecha de publicación: 2022
Publicación seriada: Environmental science & technology 
Resumen: Planktonic copepods are the most abundant animals in the ocean and key players in global biochemical processes. Recent modeling suggests that zooplankton ingestion of microplastics (MPs) can disrupt the biological carbon pump and accelerate a global loss of oceanic oxygen. Here we investigate the behavioral responses and ingestion rates of a model feeding-current generating copepod when exposed to microplastics of different characteristics by small-scale video observations and bottle incubations. We found that copepods rejected 80% of the microplastics after touching them with their mouth parts, in essence exhibiting a kind of taste discrimination. High rejection rates of microplastics were independent of polymer type, shape, presence of biofilms, or sorbed pollutant (pyrene), indicating that microplastics are unpalatable for feeding-current feeding copepods and that post-capture taste discrimination is a main sensorial mechanism in the rejection of microplastics. In an ecological context, taking into account the behaviors of planktonic copepods and the concentrations of microplastics found in marine waters, our results suggest a low risk of microplastic ingestion by zooplankton and a low impact of microplastics on the vertical exportation of fecal pellets.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10553/114604
ISSN: 0013-936X
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.2c00322
Fuente: Environmental Science & Technology [ISSN 0013-936X], April 2022
Colección:Artículo preliminar
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