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Can toxicokinetic and toxicodynamic modelling be used to understand and predict synergistic interactions between chemicals? Nina Cedergreen, Kristoffer Dalhoff, Dan Li, Michele Gottardi, and Andreas C. Kretschmann Environ. Sci. Technol., Just Accepted Manuscript • DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.7b02723 • Publication Date (Web): 13 Sep 2017 Downloaded from http://pubs.acs.org on September 13, 2017

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Can toxicokinetic and toxicodynamic modelling be used to understand

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and predict synergistic interactions between chemicals?

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Nina Cedergreena*, Kristoffer Dalhoffa, Dan Liab, Michele Gottardia and Andreas C. Kretschmannac

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*Corresponding author, phone: +45 29611743, [email protected]

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University of Copenhagen

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Thorvaldsensvej 40

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1871 Frederiksberg C

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Department of Plant and Environmental Science

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Key Laboratory of Pollution Ecology and Environmental Engineering,

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Institute of Applied Ecology,

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Chinese Academy of Sciences,

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110016, China

Present address:

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University of Copenhagen

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Universitetsparken 2

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2100 Copenhagen Ø

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Toxicology Lab, Department of Pharmacy and Analytical Biosciences

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ABSTRACT

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Some chemicals are known to enhance the effect of

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other chemicals beyond what can be predicted with

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standard mixture models, such as concentration

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addition and independent action. These chemicals are

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called synergists. Up until now, no models exist that

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can predict the joint effect of mixtures including

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synergists. The aim of the present study is to develop a

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mechanistic toxicokinetic (TK) and toxicodynamic

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(TD) model for the synergistic mixture of the azole fungicide, propiconazole (the synergist), and the

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insecticide, α-cypermethrin, on the mortality of the crustacean D. magna. The study tests the hypothesis that

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the mechanism of synergy is the azole decreasing the biotransformation rate of α-cypermethrin and validates

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the predictive ability of the model on another azole with a different potency: prochloraz. The study showed

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that the synergistic potential of azoles could be explained by their effect on the biotransformation rate but

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that this effect could only partly be explained by the effect of the two azoles on cytochrome P450 activity,

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measured on D. magna in vivo. TKTD models of interacting mixtures seem to be a promising tool to test

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mechanisms of interactions between chemicals. Their predictive ability is, however, still uncertain.

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INTRODUCTION

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Some chemicals are known to enhance the effect of other chemicals beyond what can be predicted with

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standard mixture models, such as concentration addition and independent action. These chemicals are called

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synergists. Up till now no models exist that can predict the joint effect of mixtures including synergists.

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Azole fungicides have been shown to act as synergists in a range of studies, enhancing the toxicity of

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pyrethroid insecticides up to 10-50-fold in a range of organisms1-4. Also other pesticide or biocide

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combinations have shown to induce repeatable synergy in a range of organisms 5. Synergy and antagony

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between chemicals can occur through a range of mechanisms: First, one chemical can affect the availability

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of another chemical outside an organism through either precipitation or change in speciation, as it has been

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demonstrated for metals in mixtures6-8. Secondly, one chemical can affect the uptake rate of another chemical

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e.g. by enhancing penetration9, or by facilitating availability by enhancing ventilation rates in aquatic

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organisms10. Thirdly, one chemical can affect the transport of another chemical to its target, as it is often

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observed in plants11, or a chemical can affect the biological action of other chemicals by either inhibiting or

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promoting their transformation through interactions with biotransformation enzymes such as cytochrome

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P450 monooxygenases and esterases12, 13. Finally, chemicals can compete for a common target site or affect

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the excretion of one another.

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In a review of synergistic interactions, 95 % of all documented pesticide synergies were caused by either

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azole fungicides or carbamate and organophosphate insecticides, known to inhibit cytochrome P450

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monooxygenases and/or esterases5. Hence, for pesticide mixtures it seems as if interactions involving

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biotransformation of other pesticides are the main mechanism behind the observed synergies. Despite of this

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hypothesis often being cited, very little direct evidence exists proving that inhibition or activation of

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biotransformation of other chemicals is the single most important mechanism of synergy of azole fungicides,

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carbamate and organophosphate insecticides3,10,14-16. For azole/pyrethroid interactions, for example,

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ChalvetMonfrey et al (1996) found that the synergy of prochloraz on deltamethrin in bees could not be

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explained by effects on biotransformation alone17, but that effects on uptake rates were also likely to take

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place 16.

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Synergists acting on biotransformation pathways could potentially be screened by using in vitro or in vivo

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assays for the effect of chemicals on different metabolic enzymes12,18,19. But even if a chemical is known to

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inhibit certain enzymes, the size of the potential synergistic interactions and its development over time,

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cannot be quantified with any existing model approach20. A possible tool to test mechanisms of synergy and

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ultimately to predict the size of synergy over time are toxicokinetic (TK) and toxicodynamic (TD) models21.

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TK models predict uptake and elimination of chemicals over time and TD models predict the development of

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effects over time as a function of the modelled or measured internal chemical concentrations21,22. Mixture

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toxicity calculations using TKTD models have been proposed, but only for non-interacting chemicals with

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similar molecular target sites23. TKTD models for interactive chemicals could be a tool to test hypotheses on

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the mechanism of interaction. If they are successful, they may also be used to predict the size of synergistic

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interactions under different exposure scenarios.

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The aim of the present study is therefore three-fold: First, we wish to build and parameterise a full TKTD

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model for the synergistic interactions between the azole fungicide propiconazole (the synergist) and the

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pyrethroid insecticide α-cypermethrin on the mortality of the crustacean D. magna (Figure 1), when

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propiconazole is present at one constant concentration. Secondly, we wish to test the different hypotheses

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concerning the mechanism of synergy (effects on uptake versus the effect on biotransformation rate), and

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thirdly, we will validate the model assumptions in terms of synergistic interactions with a synergist with a

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similar mode of action but different potency, the azole fungicide prochloraz. To confirm the hypothesis that

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the azoles induce synergy through interference with biotransformation, the model is parameterised to a

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dataset with variable propiconazole or prochloraz concentrations, and the modelled effect on

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biotransformation rate is compared with cytochrome P450 activity inhibition measured in vivo.

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Figure 1. The figure shows a conceptual model of the toxicokinetic (left side) and toxicodynamic (right side) processes

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of a pyrethroid insecticide and an azole fungicide and their interactions in Daphnia magna, symbolised by the large

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square. Inside the daphnid, there are two targets for the pesticides: the sodium channel (grey half-circle) which is the

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target site of the pyrethroid, and P450 enzymes (grey circle), the main target site for the azoles. The pyrethroids act as

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substrates for the P450 enzymes when they are biotransformed (green circle). The state variables, describing how the

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amounts of pesticide in the different locations change over time, are given in blue circles for the pyrethroids and by red

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squares for the azoles, and are all described by differential equations given in the text. The rate constants, describing TK

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processes, are given next to the solid arrows denoting the specific processes (values are given in Table 1), while

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parameters relating damage to mortality, assuming GUTS-SD (Equation 8 and 9), are given next to the grey dashed

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arrows. The synergistic interaction is proposed to occur when azoles bind to P450 enzymes, making them unavailable

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for pyrethroid biotransformation, thereby decreasing the rate by which the P450 enzymes can biotransform the

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pyrethroid (red dashed arrow). The alternative hypothesis for synergy, where azoles affect pyrethroid uptake rates, is

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denoted by a red dotted arrow. Mechanisms that are neglected in the first versions of the model, but which might be of

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importance, such as direct effects of the azoles on daphnia mortality, or effects on uptake rates due to the α-

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cypermethrin damage done to daphnia mobility, are denoted by dotted grey arrows.

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METHODS

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Theory The conceptual model is shown in Figure 1. It is initially assumed that the uptake of the pyrethroid

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will follow a first order kinetic uptake and elimination model including a biotransformation rate constant,

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km_pyr, describing the rate by which the pyrethroid is biotransformed in the organism.

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In this equation the change in internal pyrethroid concentrations, Cin_pyr, in the daphnids over time is

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described as a function of the uptake rate, kin_pyr, the excretion rate, kout_pyr, the biotransformation rate, km_pyr,

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and the external pyrethroid concentration in the water, Cw_pyr. Phase I biotransformation is, in the case of

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pyrethroids, believed mainly to be governed by P450 monooxygenases 24, though esterases may also play a

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substantial role 24-26. As pyrethroids are very hydrophobic (log Kow = 6.94 at pH 7 for α-cypermethrin),

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sorption to the daphnid exoskeleton could also be a process of quantitative significance. It is given in Figure

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1 as Csorp_pyr, and the change over time of Csorp_pyr is proposed to be described with first order kinetics using a

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sorption specific uptake and elimination rate constant, ksorp_pyr and kdesorp_pyr, respectively:

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= _ ∗ _ () − _ ∗ _ ()

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The toxicokinetics of the azoles are described with a simplification of Equation 1, only including an uptake

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and elimination rate constant, kin_az and kout_az20. The elimination rate constant in this equation therefore

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describes the sum of all biotransformation processes and efflux of the parent azole compound:

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= _!" ∗  () −   ∗ _!" ()

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To test the hypothesis that the synergy is caused by the effect of the azole on the biotransformation rate, it

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was initially assumed that both pyrethroid uptake, kin_pyr, and excretion, kout_pyr, were independent of the

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presence of the azole, and that the only effect of the azole was on km_pyr. As azoles bind to the catalytic site of

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the P450 enzymes, thereby prohibiting binding of the pyrethroid for biotransformation, we assume

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competitive inhibition of P450 enzymes by the azoles27. This means that the presence of azoles will decrease

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the amount of active P450 enzymes with a fraction depending on the internal azole concentration. This

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fraction is given by the parameter s. The parameter s can be defined by the ratio of the biotransformation rate

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constant km_pyr with and without co-exposure to the azole under steady state conditions.

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$%_ (&')

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For a variable internal concentration of azoles, we expect s to vary according to the internal concentration of

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the azole, cin_az, following a sigmoidal function. We here describe the relationship with a log-logistic two-

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parameter model, where IC50 is the internal azole concentration inhibiting the biotransformation rate of the

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pyrethroid by 50% and b is the slope parameter of the curve:

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We choose to use internal azole concentrations rather than scaled damage (Equation 7) to describe s, as it can

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be measured experimentally. We recognise that the presence of the pyrethroid may also affect the activity of

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P450 monooxygenases. However, as the pyrethroid acts as a substrate for the P450 enzymes rather than as an

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inhibitor28, and in addition is expected to occur at much lower internal concentrations compared to the

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azoles, we assume the quick catalytic biotransformation action will not significantly affect the total pool of

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P450 catalytic sites available. Hence, we chose not to include the pyrethroid’s effect on P450 activity in the

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presented model

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The toxicodynamic part of the model describes the relation between internal pyrethroid concentrations and

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observed mortality. All azole concentrations included in the studies of synergy are chosen not to affect

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daphnid mortality (< EC10 2). Hence, mortality was assumed to depend on internal pyrethroid concentrations

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alone. Toxicodynamic parameters for the azoles are, however, inserted in Figure 1, and given in Table 1, as

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they have been determined in a previous publication20, and will be used in the combined TKTD-model

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(Figure 1). Internal pyrethroid concentrations were related to mortality by including a damage stage,

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assuming that the pyrethroid insecticide induces some undefined damage with a rate, kdam_pyr, proportional to

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the internal pyrethroid concentration, and that the damage can be repaired by a rate, kdr_pyr, proportional to

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the size of the damage.

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0 ( ) 

= !_ ∗ _ () − _ ∗ 1 ())

(6)

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This is analogue to how internal chemical concentrations depend on external concentrations over time. In

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this case, however, we cannot measure damage directly. Pyrethroids inhibit the sodium channels of the

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nerves 28, which will lead to a range of biochemical disruptions in the organism, which ultimately leads to

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immobilisation and death. Because damage can rarely be measured directly, the authors of Jager et al. (2011)

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introduced the concept of scaled damage, D*, which is proportional to the actual (but undefined) damage

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level, and has the unit of an internal concentration21. This is done by dividing Equation 6 with the ratio of

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damage accrual and damage repair, kdam_pyr/kdr_pyr, thereby getting:

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= _ ∗ (_ () − 1 ∗ ())

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The parameter kdr_pyr can be determined from the time course of survival of the test organisms. How damage

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relates to survival can be determined in two ways, representing extreme cases: One is assuming stochastic

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death above a certain damage threshold (the GUTS-SD model), the other is assuming that the organisms in

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the trial die, when they have exceeded an individual threshold for damage (the GUTS-IT model). For

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derivation, discussion and testing of the two assumptions we refer to: Jager et al. (2011) and Ashauer et al.

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(2011, 2015 and 2016) 21,29-31. Here we present the equations used to link scaled damage to survival under the

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assumption of stochastic death. For the individual threshold implementation and test, see SI B. For GUTS-

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SD, hazard to the organism, Hpyr, takes place when the damage increases above a certain threshold defined

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by zpyr. Above zpyr, hazard increases proportionally with the damage with a rate defined by the killing rate

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kk_pyr:

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The survival probability as a function of time Spyr(t) is calculated from the hazard, adding the background

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hazard (hb), derived from observations of control mortality:

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9 () = : ;(2 ( )*