A review of the toxicology of oil in vertebrates: what we have learned following the <i>Deepwater Horizon</i> oil spill.

ABSTRACT: In the wake of the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill, a number of government agencies, academic institutions, consultants, and nonprofit organizations conducted lab- and field-based research to understand the toxic effects of the oil. Lab testing was performed with a variety of fish, birds, turtles, and vertebrate cell lines (as well as invertebrates); field biologists conducted observations on fish, birds, turtles, and marine mammals; and epidemiologists carried out observational studies in humans. Eight years after the spill, scientists and resource managers held a workshop to summarize the similarities and differences in the effects of DWH oil on vertebrate taxa and to identify remaining gaps in our understanding of oil toxicity in wildlife and humans, building upon the cross-tax

SUBMITTER: Takeshita R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12404339 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature