Toxicity of arsenate and DDT to the cladoceran Bosmina longirostris
| Autor: | Alexander J. Novak, Dora R. May Passino |
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| Rok vydání: | 1984 |
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Health
Toxicology and Mutagenesis Movement Branchiopoda Toxicology Daphnia Zooplankton Arsenic DDT Water Supply Crustacea Ecotoxicology Animals Water Pollutants Water pollution biology Ecology fungi Eukaryota General Medicine Plankton biology.organism_classification Pollution Pulex Arsenates Female Water Pollutants Chemical Bosmina longirostris |
| Zdroj: | Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology. 33(3) |
| ISSN: | 0007-4861 |
| Popis: | Confronted with the increasing array of environmental contaminants being detected in the Great Lakes and the need to rapidly evaluate their potential harm to the aquatic biota, the authors have been investigating the suitability of native fresh water zooplankton species for bioassay of these contaminants. Although Daphnia mayna and D. pulex are commonly accepted as standard organisms for such tests they are not particularly common in large, freshwater systems such as the Great Lakes. Recently they developed culturing and testing methods for the cladoceran Bosmina longirostris, a widespread, ecologically significant food organism for larval fish of the Great Lakes. Their objectives were to measure the acute toxicity to B. longirostris of arsenate and DDT, which are representative inorganic and organic contaminants of the Great Lakes, and to determine the relative sensitivity of B. longirostris and D. pulex to these contaminants. |
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