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Genotoxicity biomarkers on native fish species from the Araguari River (Amazon biome)

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The Araguari River, one of the most important waterways in the Brazilian state of Amapá, is ecologically relevant and essential for the conservation of Amazonian fish biodiversity. Our previous studies demonstrated contamination of water and fish by metals. In particular, water samples showed genotoxic damage in Danio rerio. Here, we extended our studies of potential genotoxic damage to native fish from sampling sites located in the Araguari River lower section. To accomplish this, we collected samples of fish with different feeding behaviors, but in the same sampling sites, and evaluated the same genotoxicity biomarkers in erythrocytes. All eleven species of fish collected in the Araguari River lower section showed profiles and frequencies of genotoxic damage similar to those previously observed in tests with D. rerio, confirming that genotoxic pollutants present in these waters are also causing damage to native fish species.

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Acknowledgements

We thank the Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Amapá-FAPEAP (Process 250.2303.123/2018), ICMBio (license 63366-1), Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico, Brazil (CNPq; process number 429400/2016–0 and 311975/2018–6), Programa de Desenvolvimento de Pós-Graduação (PDPG/Amazônia Legal/CAPES, Brazil, process no. 88881.510191/2020–01) and the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior-CAPES/FAPEAP for the scholarship awarded to the first author.

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  1. Faculdade de Ciências Exatas e Tecnologia, FACET, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciência e Tecnologia Ambiental (PPGCTA), Universidade Federal da Grande Dourados (UFGD), Rod. Dourados Itahum Km 12, Dourados, MS, 79804-970, Brazil

    Lucilene Finoto Viana & Nathalya Alice de Lima

  2. Departamento de Ciências Farmacêuticas, Instituto de Ciências Ambientais, Químicas e Farmacêuticas, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (Unifesp), Campus Diadema, Rua São Nicolau, 210, Centro, Diadema, SP, 09913-030, Brazil

    Fábio Kummrow

  3. Programa de Pós-Graduação Em Biodiversidade E Meio Ambiente (PPGBMA), Faculdade de Ciências Biológicas e Ambientais (FCBA), Universidade Federal da Grande Dourados (UFGD), Rod. Dourados Itahum Km 12, Dourados, MS, 79804-970, Brazil

    Bruno do Amaral Crispim & Alexeia Barufatti

  4. Laboratorio de Ictio e Genotoxidade, LIGEN, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Ambientais (PPGCA), Universidade Federal do Amapá (UNIFAP), Rod. Juscelino Kubitschek, Km 02, Jardim Marco Zero, Macapá, AP, 68903-419, Brazil

    Alexandro Cezar Florentino

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VLF: original draft preparation, conceptualization, writing and data analysis. KF: review, writing, and editing. LNA: reading of slides and writing. CBA: review, writing, and editing. BA: review, writing, and editing. FAC: review, writing, and editing.

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Viana, L.F., Kummrow, F., de Lima, N.A. et al. Genotoxicity biomarkers on native fish species from the Araguari River (Amazon biome). Bull Environ Contam Toxicol 110, 76 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00128-023-03713-9

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