Emilie Farcy

• PhD
• Professor (Associate) at Université de Montpellier

At land-sea interface, mangroves are likely to be exposed to pesticides due to agricultural run-offs. In Mayotte Island (Comoros archipelago, Mozambique Channel), dimethoate (DMT) is found in high concentrations in tomatoes, but no data confirm its presence in mangroves. We aimed at screening the presence of DMT in three mangroves of Mayotte at dif...

Epigenetic modifications, like DNA methylation, generate phenotypic diversity in fish and ultimately lead to adaptive evolutionary processes. Euryhaline marine species that migrate between salinity-contrasted habitats have received little attention regarding the role of salinity on whole-genome DNA methylation. Investigation of salinity-induced DNA...

Epigenetic modifications, like DNA methylation, generate phenotypic diversity in fish and ultimately lead to adaptive evolutionary processes. Euryhaline marine species that migrate between salinity contrasted habitats have received little attention regarding the role of salinity on whole-genome DNA methylation. Investigation of salinity-induced DNA...

Introduction Natural and synthetic estrogens are pollutants found in aquatic ecosystems at low concentrations reaching ng.L⁻¹ to μg.L⁻¹. At these concentrations, they are able to interfere with the fish endocrine system. When waterborne exposure occurs at early life stages, when blood estrogens concentrations are low, this may have significant cons...

Estrogens, such as the 17β-estradiol (E2) and the 17α-ethinylestradiol (EE2), have been regarded as a global threat to aquatic ecosystems due to their pseudo-persistence, their high estrogenic activity and their toxicity towards non-target species. Data regarding their ecotoxicological effects on marine calanoid copepods are very scarce. In this st...

Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology

Acclimation to low salinities is a vital physiological challenge for euryhaline fish as the European sea bass Dicentrarchus labrax. This species undertakes seasonal migrations towards lagoons and estuaries where a wide range of salinity variations occur along the year. We have previously reported intraspecific differences in freshwater tolerance, w...

The responses of European sea bass to temperature increase and salinity decrease were investigated measuring mRNA expression levels of main genes involved in ion transport. Juvenile fish were pre-acclimated to seawater (SW) at 18 °C (temperate) or 24 °C (warm) for two weeks and then transferred for two weeks to either fresh water (FW) or SW at the...

In teleosts, the regulation of hydromineral balance has a direct impact on several physiological functions, biochemical processes, and can influence behaviour, distribution and survival. As European sea bass Dicentrarchus labrax undertake seasonal migrations from seawater (SW) to brackish, estuarine and fresh water (FW) in their habitat, this study...

Dimitri Theuerkauff, Georgina A. Rivera-Ingraham, Jonathan A.C. Roques, Laurence Azzopardi, Marine Bertini, Mathilde Lejeune, Emilie Farcy, Jehan-Herve Lignot, and Elliott Sucre (2018) Salinity is one of the main environmental factors determining coastal species distribution. However, in the specific case of mangrove crabs, salinity selection canno...

In teleosts, as in mammals, the immune system is tightly regulated by sexual steroid hormones, such as oestrogens. We investigated the effects of 17β-oestradiol on the expression of several genes-related to T cell development and resulting T cell subpopulations in sea bass, Dicentrarchus labrax, for a primary lymphoid organ, the thymus, and seconda...

European sea bass Dicentrarchus labrax undertake seasonal migrations to estuaries and lagoons that are characterized by fluctuations in environmental conditions. Their ability to cope with these unstable habitats is undeniable, but it is still not clear how and to what extent salinity acclimation mechanisms are affected at temperatures higher than...

The Na+/K+-ATPase (NKA) is considered as the main pump involved in active ion transport. In the European sea bass, Dicentrarchus labrax, we found two genes encoding for the alpha 1 subunit isoforms (NKA α1a and NKA α1b). NKA α1a and NKA α1b isoform amino acid (aa) sequences were compared through phylogeny and regarding key functional motifs between...

The effect of abrupt and 5-day gradual salinity transfers from freshwater (FW) to 11 ‰ Caspian Sea brackish water (BW) was investigated in juvenile Persian sturgeon Acipenser persicus with three different weight groups: 1–2 g (1.62 ± 0.27 g), 2–3 g (2.55 ± 0.41 g) and 3–5 g (4.28 ± 0.76 g). Mortality rates, blood osmotic pressure, gill morphology a...

The Na+/K+-ATPase (NKA), considered as the main pump involved in active ion transport, presents in the European sea-bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) two isoforms of the alpha 1 subunit (NKA α1a and α1b). Analysis of amino acid (aa) sequences of both isoforms revealed a high degree of conservation across teleosts. NKA α1a and α1b isoform aa sequences are...

Environmental stressors are known to play an important role in determining the distribution and abundance of intertidal species. Marine molluscs are particularly susceptible to changes in water temperature and salinity in inter-tidal zones. Ruditapes decussatus and Ruditapes philippinarum are marine intertidal clams, constantly exposed to salinity...

Osmoregulating decapods such as the Mediterranean green crab Carcinus aestuarii, possess two groups of spatially segregated gills: anterior gills serve mainly respiratory purposes, while posterior gills contain osmoregulatory structures. The coexistence of similar tissues serving partially different functions allows studying differential adaptation...

Green crabs are one of the most osmotically tolerant species in estuaries, and thus represent an interesting physiological model in osmoregulation studies. The Mediterranean crab Carcinus aestuarii, possess two groups of spatially segregated gills: anterior gills (pairs 1-6) serve purely respiratory purposes, while posterior gills (pairs 7-9) conta...

4-Nonylphenol (4-NP) is a synthetic organic chemical able to mimick the action of the nat- ural female hormone 17 β -estradiol (E2) by binding to the E2 receptor [...]

A risk assessment for freshwater and marine ecosystems is presented for 48 pharmaceutical compounds, belonging to 16 therapeutic classes, and prescribed in northwestern France. Ecotoxicity data were obtained on two freshwater organisms, i.e., crustacean Daphnia magna and the green algae Pseudokirchneriella subcapitata, and on two marine organisms,...

The hazards linked to pharmaceutical residues like antidepressants are currently a major concern of ecotoxicology because they may have adverse effects on non-target aquatic organisms. Our study assesses the ecotoxicity of three antidepressants (fluoxetine, sertraline and clomipramine) using a battery of marine and freshwater species representing d...

Estuarine areas represent complex and highly changing environments at the interface between freshwater and marine aquatic ecosystems. Therefore, the aquatic organisms living in estuaries have to face highly variable environmental conditions. The aim of this work was to study the influence of environmental changes from either natural or anthropogeni...

Estuarine areas represent complex and highly changing environments at the interface between freshwater and marine aquatic ecosystems. Therefore, the aquatic organisms living in estuaries have to face highly variable environmental conditions. The aimof this work was to study the influence of environmental changes from either natural or anthropogenic...

The aim of this study was to investigate the short-term effects of tertiary-treated municipal effluents on the freshwater mussel Elliptio complanata. Caged mussels were immersed during 2 weeks in a river located North of Montreal Island, upstream/downstream the outfall and in one reference site located at the beginning of the Rivière des Prairies....

In the North-Cotentin (Normandy, France), the marine environment is chronically exposed to liquid releases from the La Hague nuclear fuel recycling plant (Areva NC), resulting in a small increase in radioactivity compared to natural background. The transcriptional expression levels of stress genes were investigated in oysters exposed to ionizing ra...

The endocrine-disrupting activity of municipal effluents has the potential to alter the reproductive system and induce feminization to aquatic organisms. The purpose of this study was to examine the sex ratio, vitellogenin (Vtg)-like proteins, serotonin, arachidonate cyclooxygenase (COX) activity and dopamine status in wild mussels living at sites...

During the annual cycle, oysters are exposed to seasonal slow changes in temperature, but during emersion at low tide on sunny summer days, their internal temperature may rise rapidly, resulting in acute heat stress. We experimentally exposed oysters to a 1-h acute thermal stress and investigated the transcriptional expression level of some genes i...

Like other sessile filter-feeding molluscs, oysters may be exposed in the natural environment to a variety of contaminants. Long-term exposure to pollutants may be one factor affecting prevalence of cancerous-like disorders, such as neoplasia. Environmentally induced alterations in p53 protein expression, in relation to leukemia, have been reported...

Economic and social developments have taken place at the expense of the health of the environment, both locally and on a global scale. In an attempt to better understand the large-scale effects of pollution and other stressors like climate change on the health status of Mytilus edulis, mussels were collected during the first two weeks of June 2005...

Heat-shock proteins are a multigene family of proteins whose expression is induced by a variety of stress factors. This work reports the cloning and sequencing of HSP70 and HSP90 cDNAs in the gastropod Haliotis tuberculata. The deduced amino acid sequences of both HSP70 and HSP90 from H. tuberculata shared a high degree of homology with their homol...

The North Cotentin area (Normandy, France) hosts several nuclear facilities among which the AREVA reprocessing plant of La Hague is responsible for controlled discharges of liquid radioactive wastes into the marine environment. The resulting increase in radioactivity is very small compared to natural radioactivity. However, concerns about environme...

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