L. Bahner, Alfred J. Wilson, J. M. Sheppard, J. Patrick, L. R. Goodman, G. Walsh
{"title":"Kepone® bioconcentration, accumulation, loss, and transfer through estuarine food chains","authors":"L. Bahner, Alfred J. Wilson, J. M. Sheppard, J. Patrick, L. R. Goodman, G. Walsh","doi":"10.2307/1350804","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/1350804","url":null,"abstract":"Accumulation, transfer, and loss of Kepone in estuarine organisms were studied in laboratory bioassays. Kepone was bioconcentrated by oysters (Crassostrea virginica), mysids (Mysidopsis bahia), grass shrimp (Palaemonetes pugio), sheepshead minnows (Cyprinodon variegatus), and spot (Leiostomus xanthurus), from concentrations as low as 0.023 μg/l seawater. Bioconcentration factors ranged from 10 to 340 in static exposures and 900 to 13,500 in flow-through bioassays, and were dependent on species and exposure duration.","PeriodicalId":106819,"journal":{"name":"Chesapeake Science","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1977-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128204963","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the dynamic balance of the Chesapeake Bay waters","authors":"A. Blumberg","doi":"10.2307/1350810","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/1350810","url":null,"abstract":"An investigation into the dynamic balance of Chesapeake Bay waters is carried out by means of a two-dimensional, plan view numerical model. The results of this investigation show that neither the Coriolis force nor the advective terms in the governing vertically integrated equations can be neglected without changing the tidal dynamics and circulation patterns of this Bay. Also, a bottom friction coefficient of 0.0025 produces the most realistic simulations of observed tidal data.","PeriodicalId":106819,"journal":{"name":"Chesapeake Science","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1977-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129325474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Allozyme Genetics of Life Cycle Stages of Brachyurans","authors":"J. Gooch","doi":"10.2307/1350802","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/1350802","url":null,"abstract":"Allozyme genetic variation in larvae and adults of the crabsRhithropanopeus harrisii, Sesarma cinereum, andS. reticulatum was investigated. InRhithropanopeus from North Carolina, Maryland, and Maine essentially no geographic variability was detected at 15 allozyme gene loci, all but perhaps one of which was monomorphic in the samples utilized. There was also no life cycle variability in enzyme expression among zoeae, megalopa, and adults other than assay differences. The two species ofSesarma, all collected in North Carolina, also showed no life-cycle variation. Three of 13 loci were polymorphic inS. reticulatum, 0 of 13 inS. cinereum, and 0 or 1 of 15 inR. harrisii.","PeriodicalId":106819,"journal":{"name":"Chesapeake Science","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1977-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121661617","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Occurrence of large striped mullet,Mugil cephalus, in Cape Cod Bay, Massachusetts","authors":"Randall B. Fairbanks, R. Lawton","doi":"10.2307/1350805","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/1350805","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":106819,"journal":{"name":"Chesapeake Science","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1977-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124036328","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Field studies of shell regrowth as a bioindicator of eastern oyster ( Crassostrea virginica Gmelin) response to 2,4-D BEE in Maryland tidewaters","authors":"C. K. Rawls","doi":"10.2307/1350800","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/1350800","url":null,"abstract":"New growth was filed from eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica Gmelin) shells and wire trays holding 25 oysters each were exposed to the butoxyethanol ester of 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D BEE) at rates of either 22.5, 33.75 or 67.5 kg ae (acid equivalent)/h (20, 30 or 60 Ib ae/acre). Regenerated shell growth was measured to determine the effect of herbicide application on the oyster. Two sites were used; a double-pond area with narrow inlet and outlet, and an open bay. Plant control was noted. Under the conditions of the study, oyster shell regrowth or replacement did not reflect adverse reactions to the level of herbicide applied. It appears that 2,4-D BEE in Maryland probably can be used safely to clear oyster beds of eurasian watermilfoil (Myriophyllum spicatum L.) prior to fall oyster harvest.","PeriodicalId":106819,"journal":{"name":"Chesapeake Science","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1977-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122917960","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The myxophyceae of the marshes of Southern Delaware","authors":"R. Ralph","doi":"10.2307/1350862","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/1350862","url":null,"abstract":"Thirty-six species of blue-green algae were observed in collections from the marshes of southern Delaware. All major vegetational zones support a single myxophycean association dominated by the three primary oscillatoriaceous species (sensu Drouet, 1968)Microcoleus lyngbyaceus (Kutzing) Crouan,Schizothrix calcicola (Agardh) Gomont andSchizothrix arenaria (Berkeley) Gomont. All three species contribute to the formation of coherent mats over the marsh sediments in bare areas subject to alternate periods of inundation by salt water and exposure. Firm mats are not produced unlessS. arenaria is present in abundance. Pannes and pools support the largest populations of blue-green algae in the summer. Significant but reduced populations overwinter in mats of macroscopic green algae and among the dead, lodged culms of the grasses of the high and low marshes. The availability of light at the sediment surface and the extent to which it is attenuated by the marsh angiosperms are the major factors determining the distribution of the algae on the marshes. When synonymy is taken into account, there is considerable agreement among the various published accounts of the myxophycean floras of marshes in the temperate North Atlantic region. It is suggested that the myxophycean association found on the marshes of southern Delaware may, with certain reservations, be taken as the type of a single ubiquitous, endemic temperate North Atlantic blue-green algal association. *** DIRECT SUPPORT *** A00BY066 00005","PeriodicalId":106819,"journal":{"name":"Chesapeake Science","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1977-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116916238","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Acute toxicity of Kepone® to four estuarine animals","authors":"S. C. Schimmel, Alfred J. Wilson","doi":"10.2307/1350864","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/1350864","url":null,"abstract":"Recent contamination of the James River estuary, Virginia, with Kepone prompted acute flow-through bioassays to determine the 96-hour toxicity of the insectivide to four estuarine species native to that ecosystem. The species and their 96-hour LC50 values were: grass shrimp (Palaemonetes pugio), 121 μg/liter; blue crab (Callinectes sapidus), >210 μg/liter; sheepshead minnow (Cyprinodon variegatus), 69.5μg/liter; and spot (Leiostomus xanthurus) 6.6μg/liter. Surviving animals were analyzed for Kepone. Average bioconcentration factors (the concentration of Kepone in tissues divided by the concentration of Kepone measured in seawater) were: grass shrimp, 698; blue crab 8.1; sheepshead minnow, 1,548; and spot, 1,221.","PeriodicalId":106819,"journal":{"name":"Chesapeake Science","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1977-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124850659","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fine Structure of the Myocardium of the Blue Crab Callinectes sapidus Rathbun","authors":"W. Hawkins, H. D. Howse, V. Ferrans","doi":"10.2307/1350861","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/1350861","url":null,"abstract":"The myocardium of the blue crabCallinestes sapidus has the following ultrastructural features. Myocardial cells are transversely striated with A, I, and Z-bands, H-zones, and M-lines. Thick myofilaments are arranged in a hexagonal pattern and each thick myofilament is surrounded by six thin myofilaments. The sacrotubular system consist of the sacroplasmic reticulum, transverse tubules, and longitudinal tubules. Intercalated discs having gaps 40–600 A wide connect adjacent muscle cells end-to-end. Interstitial cells are often observed beneath the external laminae of the myocardial cells. Nerve terminals and glial elements are also embedded in the myocardial cells. The nerve terminals contain both dense and clear vesicles. The dense vesicles are round (800–1000 A in diameter), whereas clear vesicles are either round (360–600 A in diameter) or flattened (350×700 A). *** DIRECT SUPPORT *** A00BY066 00004","PeriodicalId":106819,"journal":{"name":"Chesapeake Science","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1977-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130944237","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A study of the fish community in the vicinity of a thermal discharge in the James River, Virginia","authors":"J. W. White, W. S. Woolcott, W. Kirk","doi":"10.2307/1350857","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/1350857","url":null,"abstract":"The size, species composition and structure of the fish community in a 9.6 km stretch of the James River in the Piedmont Province of Virginia were analyzed. Twenty collections were made by electrofishing from October 1972 through September 1973 from both the north side of the river, which received a thermal discharge from an electric power station (ΔT4-14C at outfall), and the south side where temperatures were ambient. Parameters investigated were number of species, total number of individuals and the Shannon-Wiener and evenness indices of species diversity. Differences were found to exist in community structure among seasons within both the ambient and thermally influenced zones. In the ambient zone all parameters showed significant seasonal change with values lower in the winter. At the outfall station significant seasonal change occurred for only the diversity and evenness indices with values lower in the summer. Average total abundance remained lower within all seasons at the outfall station than in the ambient zone. As temperatures declined downstream from the point of effluent discharge parameter values more closely approached those on the unheated side of the river.","PeriodicalId":106819,"journal":{"name":"Chesapeake Science","volume":" 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1977-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120935909","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Kepone®: Chronic effects on embryo, fry, juvenile, and adult sheepshead minnows (Cyprinodon variegatus)","authors":"D. Hansen, L. R. Goodman, Alfred J. Wilson","doi":"10.2307/1350865","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/1350865","url":null,"abstract":"We investigated the toxicity of Kepone to, and uptake by embryo, fry, juvenile, and adult sheepshead minnows (Cyprinodon variegatus) using intermittent-flow toxicity tests. Concentration of Kepone and percentage of adult fish surviving in a 28-day exposure were: Control, 95%; 0.05 μg/liter, 95%; 0.16 μg/liter, 100%; 0.80 μ/liter, 78%; 1.9 μg/liter, 20%; and 7.8 μg/liter and 24 μg/liter, 0%. Concentration factors (concentrations in fish divided by concentrations measured in water) for adult fish averaged 5,200 (range 3,100 to 7,000). Symptoms of poisoning included scoliosis, darkening of the posterior one-third of the body, hemorrhaging near the brain and on the body, edema, fin-rot, uncoordinated swimming, and cessation of feeding. Adults surviving the first exposure were spawned, and the embryonic development, hatching, and survival and growth of fry and juveniles were monitored in a 36-day exposure to Kepone concentrations of 0.08, 0.18, 0.72, 2.0, 6.6, and 33 μg/liter. A significant number of embryos from adult fish exposed to 1.9 μg of Kepone/liter of water developed abnormally and died even when incubated in Kepone-free water. Kepone in water was not as lethal to progeny as to adults: 36-day LC50 for juveniles was 6.7μg/liter; 28-day LC50 for adults, 1.3 μg/liter. However, the average standard length of juvenile fish was significantly reduced by exposure to 0.08 μg of Kepone/liter of water; some fish developed scoliosis. Concentration factors in juvenile sheepshead minnows averaged 7,200 and increased from 3,600 to 20,000 as exposure concentrations decreased.","PeriodicalId":106819,"journal":{"name":"Chesapeake Science","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1977-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123650377","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}