{"id":1098,"date":"2013-01-23T10:46:01","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T10:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/biosi.subsite.cf.ac.uk\/biosi\/kille-morgan\/?p=1098"},"modified":"2015-06-19T09:51:54","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T09:51:54","slug":"publicaton-life-history-effects-of-arsenic-toxicity-in-clades-of-the-earthworm-lumbricus-rubellus-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/kille-morgan\/2013\/01\/23\/publicaton-life-history-effects-of-arsenic-toxicity-in-clades-of-the-earthworm-lumbricus-rubellus-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Publicaton: Life-history effects of arsenic toxicity in clades of the earthworm Lumbricus rubellus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Craig Anderson\" href=\"http:\/\/biosi.subsite.cf.ac.uk\/biosi\/kille-morgan\/the-team-2\/craig-anderson-2\/\">Dr. Anderson<\/a> and <a title=\"Pete Kille\" href=\"http:\/\/biosi.subsite.cf.ac.uk\/biosi\/kille-morgan\/the-team-2\/pete-kille-2\/\">Dr. Kille<\/a>\u00a0have published in the journal Environmental Polution with their work on the effects of arsenic on the life-history of <em>Lumbricus rubellus.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1.8em\">Abstract<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"abspara0010\">Exposures of\u00a0<em>Lumbricus rubellus<\/em>\u00a0to a series of arsenic concentrations in soil were used to assess life-stage (juvenile, adult) and genotype specific sensitivities, to calculate population growth rate (<em>\u03bb<\/em>) and to assess patterns of As accumulation. Significant mortality was seen in juveniles at 125\u00a0mg\/kg\u00a0As, while growth and maturation was affected from 36\u00a0mg\/kg and above. <\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.execu-search.com\/buy-generic-levitra-online-uk\/\" title=\"buy generic levitra online uk\">buy generic levitra online uk<\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cotawa.org.au\/2015\/04\/buy-prednisone\/\" title=\"buy prednisone\">buy prednisone<\/a><\/div>\n<p> In adults, cocoon production at the highest concentration (125\u00a0mg\/kg) was significantly reduced. Phylogenetic analysis was performed by comparison of mitochondrial sequences to establish genotypic variation among juveniles. Three clades with more than 7.5% divergent were described, with 70% of earthworms belonging to a single clade. Date of and mass at maturation was significantly different between clades, but clades were not differentially As sensitive. Parameter\u00a0<em>\u03bb<\/em>\u00a0was reduced at 36\u00a0mg\/kg As and was negative at 125\u00a0mg\/kg As, suggesting impacts and population stability and potential extinction at environmentally relevant concentrations.<\/p>\n<p>Full texts is\u00a0available\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0269749112004071\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Anderson and Dr. Kille\u00a0have published in the journal Environmental Polution with their work on the effects of arsenic on the life-history of Lumbricus rubellus. Abstract Exposures of\u00a0Lumbricus rubellus\u00a0to a series of arsenic concentrations in soil were used to assess life-stage (juvenile, adult) and genotype specific sensitivities, to calculate population growth rate (\u03bb) and to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3463,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-publications"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6t6rP-hI","meta_box":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/kille-morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/kille-morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/kille-morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/kille-morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3463"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/kille-morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/kille-morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2624,"href":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/kille-morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions\/2624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/kille-morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/kille-morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/kille-morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}