Yes, the research on low dose adverse effects of copper on fish, harm to sensory cilia with subsequent decline pressures for population survival, brings up the question of whether or not other water-exposed cilia are at risk. Freshwater mussels are very dependent on cilia to drive the whole gut train. Apical sensory neuronal cilia may be physiologically similar enough that other cilia, that hopefully more researchers are investigating. The stormwater runoff Cu and Pb may be a huge metals pollution problem off of many impermeable surface areas, but there are a lot of dock, pilings, deckings made from the newer copper pressure treated wood, that we may be having significant Cu pollution via leaching into our waters from that source as well.
Published by Ray Kinney
Yes, the research on low dose adverse effects of copper on fish, harm to sensory cilia with subsequent decline pressures for population survival, brings up the question of whether or not other water-exposed cilia are at risk. Freshwater mussels are very dependent on cilia to drive the whole gut train. Apical sensory neuronal cilia may be physiologically similar enough that other cilia, that hopefully more researchers are investigating. The stormwater runoff Cu and Pb may be a huge metals pollution problem off of many impermeable surface areas, but there are a lot of dock, pilings, deckings made from the newer copper pressure treated wood, that we may be having significant Cu pollution via leaching into our waters from that source as well.