PMID- 35523349 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20220608 LR - 20220608 IS - 1879-1026 (Electronic) IS - 0048-9697 (Linking) VI - 836 DP - 2022 Aug 25 TI - Assessment of metal exposure (uranium and copper) in fatty acids and carbohydrate profiles of Calamoceras marsupus larvae (Trichoptera) and Alnus glutinosa leaf litter. PG - 155613 LID - S0048-9697(22)02709-7 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.155613 [doi] AB - Physiological changes were explored in fatty acids (FA) and carbohydrate (CHO) composition in the shredder Calamoceras marsupus larvae (Trichoptera) and leaf litter (C. marsupus food) exposed to copper and uranium under natural and experimental conditions. We measured FA and CHO content in leaf litter and larvae specimens from reference and impacted streams, and exposed for 5 weeks to four realistic environmental concentrations of copper (35 mug L(-1) and 70 mug L(-1)) and uranium (25 mug L(-1) and 50 mug L(-1)). Regarding FA, (1) leaf litter had a reduced polyunsaturated FA (PUFA) content in metal treatments, s (14 to 33% of total FA), compared to natural conditions (>/=39% of total FA). Leaf litter exposed to uranium also differed in saturated FA (SFA) composition, with lower values in natural conditions and higher values under low uranium concentrations. (2) C. marsupus had/showed low PUFA content under Cu and U exposure, particularly in high uranium concentrations. Detritivores also decreased in PUFA under exposure to both metals, particularly in high uranium concentrations. On the other hand, (1) microorganisms of the biofilm colonizing leaf litter differed in CHO composition between natural (impacted and reference) and experimental conditions, with glucose and galactose being consistently the most abundant sugars, found in different amounts under copper or uranium exposure; (2) CHO of detritivores showed similar high galactose and fucose concentrations in contaminated streams and high copper treatments, whereas low copper treatment showed distinct CHO profiles, with higher mannose, glucose, arabinose, and fucose concentrations. Our study provides evidence of metal exposure effects on FA and CHO contents at different trophic levels, which might alter the quality of food flow in trophic webs. CI - Copyright (c) 2022 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. FAU - Tagliaferro, Marina AU - Tagliaferro M AD - IDEA - Instituto de Diversidad y Ecologia Animal (Universidad Nacional de Cordoba - CONICET), Av, Velez Sarsfield 299, X5000 JJC Cordoba, Argentina. Electronic address: marina.tagliaferro@conicet.gov.ar. FAU - Rocha, Carolina AU - Rocha C AD - University of Coimbra, MARE-Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre, Department of Life Sciences, 3001-456 Coimbra, Portugal. FAU - Marques, Joao C AU - Marques JC AD - University of Coimbra, MARE-Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre, Department of Life Sciences, 3001-456 Coimbra, Portugal. FAU - Goncalves, Ana M M AU - Goncalves AMM AD - University of Coimbra, MARE-Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre, Department of Life Sciences, 3001-456 Coimbra, Portugal; Department of Biology and CESAM, University of Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20220503 PL - Netherlands TA - Sci Total Environ JT - The Science of the total environment JID - 0330500 RN - 0 (Fatty Acids) RN - 28RYY2IV3F (Fucose) RN - 4OC371KSTK (Uranium) RN - 789U1901C5 (Copper) RN - IY9XDZ35W2 (Glucose) RN - X2RN3Q8DNE (Galactose) SB - IM MH - *Alnus MH - Animals MH - Copper/toxicity MH - Fatty Acids MH - Fucose MH - Galactose MH - Glucose MH - Insecta MH - Larva MH - Plant Leaves MH - *Uranium/toxicity OTO - NOTNLM OT - Biomarker OT - Invertebrate OT - Lipid OT - Metal OT - Polysaccharide OT - Stream COIS- Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper. EDAT- 2022/05/07 06:00 MHDA- 2022/06/09 06:00 CRDT- 2022/05/06 19:24 PHST- 2022/01/01 00:00 [received] PHST- 2022/04/24 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2022/04/26 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2022/05/07 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2022/06/09 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2022/05/06 19:24 [entrez] AID - S0048-9697(22)02709-7 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.155613 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Sci Total Environ. 2022 Aug 25;836:155613. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.155613. Epub 2022 May 3.