Impact of Fluoxetine on Herbivorous Zooplankton and Planktivorous Fish.

ABSTRACT: The contamination of freshwater environments by pharmaceuticals is a growing problem. Modern healthcare uses nearly 3000 substances, many of which are designed to work at low dosages and act on physiological systems that have been evolutionarily conserved across taxa. Because drugs affect the organisms from different trophic levels, pharmaceutical pollution is likely to disturb species interactions. However, such effects are still only poorly understood. We investigated the impacts of environmentally relevant concentrations of the common drug fluoxetine (Prozac), an increasingly common contaminant of European waters, on predation behavior of crucian carp (Carassius carassius), a common planktivorous European fish, and the somatic growth of its prey, the water flea (Daphnia magna), a widesp

SUBMITTER: Grzesiuk M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10107138 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature