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Carryover effects of tire wear particle leachate threats reproduction across multiple generations
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Researchers investigated multi-generational carryover effects of tire wear particle leachate on rotifer (Brachionus calyciflorus) reproduction across seven consecutive generations, finding that past exposure impaired reproductive output in subsequent generations even after the toxicant was removed, suggesting cumulative population-level risks from tire-derived pollutants.
Abstract Toxic additives leached from tire wear particle (TWP) have been linked to some collective death events of fish, also impose impacts on zooplankton as secondary consumer in aquatic food web. In addition to direct impacts of TWP leachate at the current generation, potential delayed carryover from past exposure across multi-generational lineage may augment impacts on individual reproduction, then population maintenance. We investigated the carryover effects from persistent exposure and past TWP leachate exposure along generation passaging on the individual reproduction of rotifer, Brachionus calyciflorus , a typical zooplankton. For rotifer treated with TWP leachate across continuous 7 generations, their offspring were divided into parental exposure or no exposure in each generation. And rotifer transferred into no exposure were maintained for 3 generations to eliminate indirect exposure through their parental germ. The similar response of reproduction, via carryover effects from parental exposure, also emerged in offspring without exposure. Persistent exposure across multiple generations additively impaired individual reproduction performance by transferring from its hermetic effects in original generation, even caused final population collapse. TWP leachate could impose cascading toxicity on population persistence of zooplankton via carryover and cumulative effects on reproduction for long term, which must be considered in risk assessment and management policy to alleviate the effects of TWP.
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