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6779758 
Journal Article 
Review 
Embryo bioassays with aquatic animals for toxicity testing and hazard assessment of emerging pollutants: A review 
Capela, R; Garric, J; Castro, LFC; Santos, MM 
2020 
1 
Science of the Total Environment
ISSN: 0048-9697
EISSN: 1879-1026 
705 
135740 
English 
31838430 
WOS:000508129700025 
This review article gathers the available information on the use of embryo-tests as high-throughput tools for toxicity screening, hazard assessment and prioritization of new and existing chemical compounds. The approach is contextualized considering the new legal trends for animal experimentation, fostering the 3R policy, with reduction of experimental animals, addressing the potential of embryo-tests as high-throughput toxicity screening and prioritizing tools. Further, the current test guidelines, such as the ones provided by OECD and EPA, focus mainly in a limited number of animal lineages, particularly vertebrates and arthropods. To extrapolate hazard assessment to the ecosystem scale, a larger diversity of taxa should be tested. The use of new experimental animal models in toxicity testing, from a representative set of taxa, was thoroughly revised and discussed in this review. Here, we critically review current tools and the main advantages and drawbacks of different animal models and set researcher priorities.