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SERDP Amphibian Research

Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances, or PFAS, are synthetic chemicals of emerging concern. Since their development in the mid-20th century, PFAS have been used in numerous consumer and industrial applications, including as a component in Teflon, Gore-Tex, Scotch-Guard, food packaging, and foams used to fight fuel fires. While these unique chemicals are highly effective in their intended uses, their water solubility, resistance to degradation, and potential to exert toxic effects at low doses has led to a growing concern at their now global presence in humans and the environment.

The prevalence of PFAS at military sites where fire training exercises have been conducted and the great uncertainty surrounding their impact on wildlife, including amphibians, has driven our PFAS research funded by the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP). Our goals were to assess the effects of four PFAS commonly associated with AFFF use on aquatic and terrestrial life stages of three North American amphibians: Northern leopard frogs (Rana pipiens), American toads (Anaxyrus americanus), and Eastern tiger salamanders (Ambystoma tigrinum).

Representative publications 

Barragan, EM, TD Hoskins, EB Allmon, JL McQuigg, MT Hamilton, E Christian, GSM Coogan, CL Searle, YJ Choi, LS Lee, JT Hoverman, MS Sepúlveda. 2023. Toxicities of Legacy and Current Use PFAS in an Anuran: Do Larval Exposures Influence Responses to a Terrestrial Pathogen Challenge? Environmental Science and Technology. 57:19180-19189.

Hoskins, TD, RW Flynn#, GSM Coogan, AC Catlin, C de Perre, MM Gharehveran, YJ Choi, LS Lee, JT Hoverman, MS Sepúlveda. 2023. Chronic Exposure to a PFAS mixture resembling AFFF-impacted surface water decreases body size in Northern Leopard Frogs (Rana pipiens) Environmental Science and Technology. 57:14797-14806.

Pandelides, Z, J Conder, YJ Choi, EB Allmon, TD Hoskins, LS Lee, JT Hoverman, and MS Sepúlveda. 2023. A critical review amphibian PFAS ecotoxicity research studies: Identification of screening levels in water and other useful resources for site‐specific ecological risk assessments. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 42:2078-2090.

Hopkins, AP and JT Hoverman. 2023 Acute aquatic toxicity of two commonly used fungicides to midwestern amphibian larvae. Ecotoxicology. 32:188-195.

Lech, ME, YJ Choi, LS Lee, MS Sepulveda, JT Hoverman. 2022. Effects of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance mixtures on the susceptibility of larval American Bullfrogs to parasites. Environmental Science and Technology. 56: 15953-15959.

Hoskins, TD, EB Allmon, RW Flynn, LS Lee, JT Hoverman, and MS Sepulveda. 2022. An environmentally relevant mixture of perfluorooctanesulfonic acid and perfluorohexanesulfonic acid does not conform to additivity in northern leopard frogs exposed through metamorphosis. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 41: 3007-3016.

Flynn, RW, G Hoover, M Iacchetta, S Guffey, Y-J Choi, C De Perre, B Huerta, W Li, JT Hoverman, L Lee, MS Sepulveda. 2022. Comparative toxicity of aquatic PFAS exposure in three species of amphibians. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 41:1407-1415.

Tornabene, BJ, MF Chislock, ME Gannon, MS Sepúlveda, and JT Hoverman 2021.  Relative acute toxicity of three per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances on nine species of larval amphibians. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management. 17:684-690.

Flynn, RW, TD. Hoskins, M Iacchetta, C de Perre, LS Lee, JT Hoverman, and MS Sepulveda. 2021. Dietary exposure and accumulation of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances alters growth and reduces body condition of post-metamorphic salamanders. Science of the Total Environment 765:142730.

Abercrombie, SA, M Iachetta, C de Perre, RW Flyn#, MS Sepúlveda, LS Lee, and JT Hoverman. 2021. Sublethal effects of dermal exposure to poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances on post-metamorphic amphibians. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 40:717-726.

Brown, SR, RW Flynn, and JT Hoverman. 2021. Perfluoroalkyl substances increase susceptibility of northern leopard frog tadpoles to trematode infection. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 40:689-694.

Flynn, RW, M Iachetta, C de Perre, LS Lee, MS Sepúlveda, and JT Hoverman. 2021. Chronic per-/polyfluoroalkyl substance exposure under environmentally relevant conditions delays development in northern leopard frog (Rana pipiens) larvae. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 40:711-716. Recognized as top 10 exceptional papers of 2021 by the journal.

Abercrombie, SA, M Iachetta, C de Perre, RW Flynn, MS Sepúlveda, LS Lee, and JT Hoverman. 2020. Sublethal effects of dermal exposure to poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances on post-metamorphic amphibians. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry.

Flynn, RW, M Iachetta, C de Perre, LS Lee, MS Sepúlveda, and JT Hoverman. 2020. Chronic exposure to PFAS-spiked sediment delays development in Northern leopard frog (Rana pipiens) larvae. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry.

Brown, SR, Flynn, and JT Hoverman. 2020. Perfluoroalkyl substances increase susceptibility of northern leopard frog tadpoles to trematode infection. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry.

Foguth, RM, TD. Hoskin, GC Clark, M Nelson, RW Flynn, C de Perre, JT Hoverman, LS Lee, MS Sepúlveda, and JR Cannon. 2020. Single and mixture per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances accumulate in developing Northern leopard frog brains and produce complex neurotransmission alterations, Neurotoxicology and Teratology.

Flynn, RW, MF Chislock, ME Gannon, S. Bauer, BJ Tornabene, JT Hoverman, and MS Sepúlveda. 2019. Lethal and sublethal effects of perfluoroalkyl substance mixtures on larval American bullfrogs (Rana catesbeiana). Chemosphere. 236:124350

Abercrombie, SA, C de Perre, YJ Choi, BJ Tornabene, MS Sepúlveda, LS Lee, and JT Hoverman. 2019. Larval amphibians rapidly bioaccumulate poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety. 178:137-145.





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