Developmental and Transcriptomic Responses in Sea Urchin Larvae to an Urban-Associated Pollutant.

ABSTRACT: Urban environments provide a unique opportunity to investigate the impacts of novel stressors on organismal performance. Marine intertidal zones exist at the transition from sea to land, where they are exposed to a unique suite of stressors, including those associated with wastewater outflow, sewage effluent, and coastline development. Although studies have shown that compounds found in wastewater, including endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs), can affect the survival and development of marine organisms, the mechanisms for those effects are relatively unknown. Our study investigates the developmental and transcriptomic responses to a common EDC, nonylphenol, using the Pacific purple sea urchin (Strongylocentrotus purpuratus) as a model system. Beginning exposure prior to fertiliza

SUBMITTER: Armstrong ML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12443524 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature