Photoenhanced toxicity of a carbamate insecticide to early life stage anuran amphibians

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 2543-2553

  Zaga, Angela ^a   Little, Edward E ^b   Rabeni, Charles F ^a   Ellersieck, Mark R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbaryl; Hyla versicolor; Ultraviolet radiation; Xenopus laevis

Indexed keywords

CARBAMATE INSECTICIDE; MELANIN;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ECOTOXICITY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO MORTALITY; EMBRYOTOXICITY; LD 50; NONHUMAN; PEST CONTROL; PHOTOSENSITIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION; ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIATION; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; ANURA; HYLA VERSICOLOR; HYLIDAE; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS (GENUS); XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0031764313     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/etc.5620171223     Document Type: Article

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