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ArticleEnvironmental toxicology and chemistry2023

Fish Fingerprinting: Identifying Crude Oil Pollutants using Bicyclic Sesquiterpanes (Bicyclanes) in the Tissues of Exposed Fish.

Francis D Spilsbury, Alan G Scarlett, Steven J Rowland, Robert K Nelson, Gemma Spaak, Kliti Grice, Marthe Monique Gagnon

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Article in Environmental toxicology and chemistry, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 3 institutions in 5 countries.

Francis D SpilsburySchool of Molecular and Life Sciences, Curtin University, Bentley, Western Australia, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-8794-8528
Alan G ScarlettWestern Australian Organic and Isotope Geochemistry Centre, The Institute for Geoscience Research, School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Curtin University, Bentley, Western Australia, Australia.
Steven J RowlandSchool of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK.
Robert K NelsonDepartment of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Falmouth, Massachusetts, USA.
Gemma SpaakWestern Australian Organic and Isotope Geochemistry Centre, The Institute for Geoscience Research, School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Curtin University, Bentley, Western Australia, Australia.
Kliti GriceWestern Australian Organic and Isotope Geochemistry Centre, The Institute for Geoscience Research, School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Curtin University, Bentley, Western Australia, Australia.
Marthe Monique GagnonSchool of Molecular and Life Sciences, Curtin University, Bentley, Western Australia, Australia.
Curtin University · AUUniversity of Plymouth · GBWoods Hole Oceanographic Institution · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In the present study, we investigated the possibility of identifying the source oils of exposed fish using ratios of bicyclic sesquiterpane (bicyclane) chemical biomarkers. In the event of an oil spill, identification of source oil(s) for assessment, or for litigation purposes, typically uses diagnostic ratios of chemical biomarkers to produce characteristic oil "fingerprints." Although this has been applied in identifying oil residues in sediments, water, and sessile filtering organisms, so far as we are aware this has never been successfully demonstrated for oil-exposed fish. In a 35-day laboratory trial, juvenile Lates calcarifer (barramundi or Asian seabass) were exposed, via the diet (1% w/w), to either a heavy fuel oil or to Montara, an Australian medium crude oil. Two-dimensional gas chromatography with high-resolution mass spectrometry and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry were then used to measure selected ratios of the bicyclanes to examine whether the ratios were statistically reproducibly conserved in the fish tissues. Six diagnostic bicyclane ratios showed high correlation (r

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Environmental PollutantsPerciformesPetroleumPetroleum PollutionWater Pollutants, ChemicalAnimalsAustraliaBiomarkersOilsBiomarkersEnvironmental PollutantsOilsPetroleumWater Pollutants, ChemicalCrude oilecotoxicologyfingerprintingheavy fuel oillinear discriminatory analysisMontara

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