| MAZUROVÁ, Edita, Klára HILSCHEROVÁ, Rita TRIEBSKORN, Heinz-R HÖHLER, Blahoslav MARŠÁLEK and Luděk BLÁHA. Endocrine regulation of the reproduction in crustaceans: Identification of potential targets for toxicants and environmental contaminants (Endocrine regulation of the reproduction in crustaceans: Identification of potential targets for toxicatnts and environmental contaminants). Biologia. Bratislava: Versita, 2008, vol. 63, No 2, p. 1-13. ISSN 0006-3088. |
Other formats:
BibTeX
LaTeX
RIS
@article{755013,
author = {Mazurová, Edita and Hilscherová, Klára and Triebskorn, Rita and Höhler, HeinzandR and Maršálek, Blahoslav and Bláha, Luděk},
article_location = {Bratislava},
article_number = {2},
keywords = {crustacean; reproduction; endocrine disruption; sex determination; contaminant; ecotoxicology},
language = {eng},
issn = {0006-3088},
journal = {Biologia},
title = {Endocrine regulation of the reproduction in crustaceans: Identification of potential targets for toxicants and environmental contaminants},
volume = {63},
year = {2008}
}
TY - JOUR
ID - 755013
AU - Mazurová, Edita - Hilscherová, Klára - Triebskorn, Rita - Höhler, Heinz-R - Maršálek, Blahoslav - Bláha, Luděk
PY - 2008
TI - Endocrine regulation of the reproduction in crustaceans: Identification of potential targets for toxicants and environmental contaminants
JF - Biologia
VL - 63
IS - 2
SP - 1-13
EP - 1-13
PB - Versita
SN - 00063088
KW - crustacean
KW - reproduction
KW - endocrine disruption
KW - sex determination
KW - contaminant
KW - ecotoxicology
N2 - Progress in ecotoxicological research documents that crustaceans are highly vulnerable to diverse chemicals and toxicants in the environment. In particular, pollutants affecting endocrine homeostasis in crustaceans (i.e. endocrine disruptors) are intensively studied, and serious reproductive disorders have been documented. In this review, current knowledge about the endocrine regulation of the crustacean reproduction is put together with the published ecotoxicological data with an attempt to summarize the potential of xenobiotics to affect crustacean reproduction. Following gaps and trends were identified: (1) Studies are required in the field of neurohormone (serotonin and dopamine) regulation of the reproduction and possible modulations by environmental toxicants such as antidepressant drugs. (2) Molting-related parameters (regulated by ecdysteroid hormones) are closely coordinated with the development and reproduction cycles in crustaceans (cross-links with methyl farnesoate signalling), and their susceptibility to toxicants should be studied. (3) Other biochemical targets for xenobiotics were recently discovered in crustaceans and these should be explored by further ecotoxicological studies (e.g. new information about ecdysteroid receptor molecular biology). (4) Some sex steroid hormones known from vertebrates (testosterone, progesterone) have been reported in crustaceans but knowledge about their targets (crustacean steroid receptors) and signalling is still limited. (5) Determination of the sex in developing juveniles (affecting the sex ratio in population) is a sensitive parameter to various xenobiotics (including endocrine disruptors) but its modulation by general environmental stress and non-specific toxicity should be further studied.
ER -
MAZUROVÁ, Edita, Klára HILSCHEROVÁ, Rita TRIEBSKORN, Heinz-R HÖHLER, Blahoslav MARŠÁLEK and Luděk BLÁHA. Endocrine regulation of the reproduction in crustaceans: Identification of potential targets for toxicants and environmental contaminants (Endocrine regulation of the reproduction in crustaceans: Identification of potential targets for toxicatnts and environmental contaminants). \textit{Biologia}. Bratislava: Versita, 2008, vol.~63, No~2, p.~1-13. ISSN~0006-3088.
|
