Warmer temperatures limit the effects of antidepressant pollution on life-history traits.

ABSTRACT: Pharmaceutical pollutants pose a threat to aquatic ecosystems worldwide. Yet, few studies have considered the interaction between pharmaceuticals and other chronic stressors contemporaneously, even though the environmental challenges confronting animals in the wild seldom, if ever, occur in isolation. Thermal stress is one such environmental challenge that may modify the threat of pharmaceutical pollutants. Accordingly, we investigated how fluoxetine (Prozac), a common psychotherapeutic and widespread pollutant, interacts with temperature to affect life-history traits in the water flea, Daphnia magna. We chronically exposed two genotypes of Daphnia to two ecological relevant concentrations of fluoxetine (30 ng l^-1 and 300 ng l^-1) and a concentration repr

SUBMITTER: Aulsebrook LC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8825998 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature