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Fish Aversion and Attraction to Selected Agrichemicals

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In agriculture intensive areas, fishponds and natural water bodies located in close proximity to these fields receive water with variable amounts of agrichemicals. Consequently, toxic compounds reach nontarget organisms. For instance, aquatic organisms can be exposed to tebuconazole-based fungicides (TBF), glyphosate-based herbicides (GBH), and atrazine-based herbicides (ABH) that are potentially dangerous, which motivates the following question: Are these agrichemicals attractant or aversive to fish? To answer this question, adult zebrafish were tested in a chamber that allows fish to escape from or seek a lane of contaminated water. This attraction and aversion paradigm was evaluated with zebrafish in the presence of an acute contamination with these compounds. We showed that only GBH was aversive to fish, whereas ABH and TBF caused neither attraction nor aversion for zebrafish. Thus, these chemicals do not impose an extra toxic risk by being an attractant for fish, although TBF and ABH can be more deleterious, because they induce no aversive response. Because the uptake and bioaccumulation of chemicals in fish seems to be time- and dose-dependent, a fish that remains longer in the presence of these substances tends to absorb higher concentrations than one that escapes from contaminated sites.

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Acknowledgments

This study was funded by the Universidade de Passo Fundo and CNPq. L.J.G.B. holds a CNPq research fellowship (301992/2014-2).

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The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. L.J.G.B., M.S.A, R.E.B., and J.G.S.R. conceptualized the study, interpreted the data, and wrote the paper. M.S.A., A.C.V.G., G.K., F.K., T.A.O., and H.H.A.B. collected and analyzed the data.

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  1. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Farmacologia, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM), Santa Maria, RS, Brazil

    João Gabriel Santos da Rosa, Murilo Sander de Abreu, Ana Cristina Varrone Giacomini, Gessi Koakoski, Fabiana Kalichak, Thiago Acosta Oliveira, Heloísa Helena de Alcântara Barcellos & Leonardo José Gil Barcellos

  2. Universidade de Passo Fundo (UPF), Campus Universitário do Bairro São José, Caixa Postal 611, CEP 99001-970, Passo Fundo, RS, Brazil

    Ana Cristina Varrone Giacomini, Heloísa Helena de Alcântara Barcellos & Leonardo José Gil Barcellos

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    Leonardo José Gil Barcellos

  4. Research Center on Animal Welfare (RECAW), Department of Physiology, Bioscience Institute, Caunesp, Unesp, CEP 18618-970, Botucau, SP, Brazil

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da Rosa, J.G.S., de Abreu, M.S., Giacomini, A.C.V. et al. Fish Aversion and Attraction to Selected Agrichemicals. Arch Environ Contam Toxicol 71, 415–422 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00244-016-0300-x

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