Time-related effects of intoxication with cadmium and mercury in the red wood ant

Ecotoxicology

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 307-320

  Migula, Pawel ^a,b   GŁowacka, Elzbieta ^a,b   Nuorteva, Sirkka Liisa ^c   Nuorteva, Pekka ^c   Tulisalo, Esa ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Enzyme patterns; Heavy metals; Phosphoadenine nucleotides; Red wood ant; Tolerance

Indexed keywords

ADENINE NUCLEOTIDE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; CADMIUM; MERCURY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANT; ARTICLE; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; INTOXICATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS; WOOD;

ANIMALIA; FORMICA AQUILONIA; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; LETHRINIDAE;

EID: 0030714616     PISSN: 09639292     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1018691130657     Document Type: Article

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