Digestive caecum and tissue redistribution in gill of Telescopium telescopium as indicators of Ni bioavailabilities and contamination in the tropical intertidal area

The relationships between the Ni concentrations of the mudflat snails Telescopium telescopium and the surface sediments have not been reported yet from tropical intertidal areas. In this study, telescope snails and surface sediments were collected from 18 geographical sampling sites in intertidal ar...

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Main Authors: Yap, Chee Kong, Arifin, Noorhaidah, Tan, Soon Guan
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Published: Springer Netherlands 2012
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author Yap, Chee Kong
Arifin, Noorhaidah
Tan, Soon Guan
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Arifin, Noorhaidah
Tan, Soon Guan
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description The relationships between the Ni concentrations of the mudflat snails Telescopium telescopium and the surface sediments have not been reported yet from tropical intertidal areas. In this study, telescope snails and surface sediments were collected from 18 geographical sampling sites in intertidal areas of Peninsular Malaysia. The concentrations of Ni were measured in seven different soft tissues of the snails namely foot, cephalic tentacles, mantle, muscle, gill, digestive cecum, and remaining soft tissues. It was found that different concentrations of Ni were found in the different soft tissues, indicating different mechanisms of sequestration and regulation of Ni in these different tissues. By comparing the Ni concentrations in the similar tissues, spatial variations of Ni were found in the different sampling sites although there was no consistent pattern of Ni in these sites. The highest Ni variation based on the ratio of maximum to minimum values indicated that cephalic tentacle and foot were the main organs having high Ni variation. The use of correlation analysis and multiple linear stepwise regression analysis revealed that digestive cecum of T. telescopium could be used to reflect the Ni contamination of the sampling site. Also, the digestive cecum and gill were found to be the main bioaccumulation and storage sites for Ni. From the Ni accumulation patterns in all the populations investigated, tissue redistributions of Ni in gill was identified and could be proposed as an indicator of high Ni bioavailability and contamination in the sampling site. To our knowledge, this is the first and most comprehensive study on Ni accumulation in the different soft tissues of T. telescopium from tropical intertidal areas, in relation to the sediment data.
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spelling upm.eprints-223912015-12-07T05:55:58Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/22391/ Digestive caecum and tissue redistribution in gill of Telescopium telescopium as indicators of Ni bioavailabilities and contamination in the tropical intertidal area Yap, Chee Kong Arifin, Noorhaidah Tan, Soon Guan The relationships between the Ni concentrations of the mudflat snails Telescopium telescopium and the surface sediments have not been reported yet from tropical intertidal areas. In this study, telescope snails and surface sediments were collected from 18 geographical sampling sites in intertidal areas of Peninsular Malaysia. The concentrations of Ni were measured in seven different soft tissues of the snails namely foot, cephalic tentacles, mantle, muscle, gill, digestive cecum, and remaining soft tissues. It was found that different concentrations of Ni were found in the different soft tissues, indicating different mechanisms of sequestration and regulation of Ni in these different tissues. By comparing the Ni concentrations in the similar tissues, spatial variations of Ni were found in the different sampling sites although there was no consistent pattern of Ni in these sites. The highest Ni variation based on the ratio of maximum to minimum values indicated that cephalic tentacle and foot were the main organs having high Ni variation. The use of correlation analysis and multiple linear stepwise regression analysis revealed that digestive cecum of T. telescopium could be used to reflect the Ni contamination of the sampling site. Also, the digestive cecum and gill were found to be the main bioaccumulation and storage sites for Ni. From the Ni accumulation patterns in all the populations investigated, tissue redistributions of Ni in gill was identified and could be proposed as an indicator of high Ni bioavailability and contamination in the sampling site. To our knowledge, this is the first and most comprehensive study on Ni accumulation in the different soft tissues of T. telescopium from tropical intertidal areas, in relation to the sediment data. Springer Netherlands 2012 Article PeerReviewed Yap, Chee Kong and Arifin, Noorhaidah and Tan, Soon Guan (2012) Digestive caecum and tissue redistribution in gill of Telescopium telescopium as indicators of Ni bioavailabilities and contamination in the tropical intertidal area. Water, Air and Soil Pollution, 223 (6). pp. 2891-2905. ISSN 0049-6979; ESSN: 1573-2932 http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11270-012-1073-0 10.1007/s11270-012-1073-0
spellingShingle Yap, Chee Kong
Arifin, Noorhaidah
Tan, Soon Guan
Digestive caecum and tissue redistribution in gill of Telescopium telescopium as indicators of Ni bioavailabilities and contamination in the tropical intertidal area
title Digestive caecum and tissue redistribution in gill of Telescopium telescopium as indicators of Ni bioavailabilities and contamination in the tropical intertidal area
title_full Digestive caecum and tissue redistribution in gill of Telescopium telescopium as indicators of Ni bioavailabilities and contamination in the tropical intertidal area
title_fullStr Digestive caecum and tissue redistribution in gill of Telescopium telescopium as indicators of Ni bioavailabilities and contamination in the tropical intertidal area
title_full_unstemmed Digestive caecum and tissue redistribution in gill of Telescopium telescopium as indicators of Ni bioavailabilities and contamination in the tropical intertidal area
title_short Digestive caecum and tissue redistribution in gill of Telescopium telescopium as indicators of Ni bioavailabilities and contamination in the tropical intertidal area
title_sort digestive caecum and tissue redistribution in gill of telescopium telescopium as indicators of ni bioavailabilities and contamination in the tropical intertidal area
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