Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Units Program: Pennsylvania
Education, Research and Technical Assistance for Managing Our Natural Resources

Pennsylvania Project


Per- and polyfluoroalkyl occurrence and concentrations in lentic invasive snakehead populations: identifying gene expression signatures of toxicity with implications for human consumption advisories

February 2024 - January 2026


Personnel

Participating Agencies

  • PA Sea Grant

The specific objectives of this project are to (1) quantify the occurrence and concentration of select PFAS in the muscle (fillet) and gill tissue of lentic invasive snakeheads across a developed land use gradient and (2) use gene expression profiles to identify potential biochemical response pathways and gene expression biomarkers of PFAS exposure.