Toxicity of chlorobenzenes to a lux-marked terrestrial bacterium, Pseudomonas fluorescens

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 2134-2140

  Boyd, Elaine M ^a,b   Meharg, Andrew A ^a   Wright, Julian ^a   Killham, Ken ^b  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chlorobenzenes; Lux; Pseudornonas fluorescens; QSARs; Soil bacterium

Indexed keywords

CHLOROBENZENE;

ARTICLE; BIOLUMINESCENCE; CHLORINATION; LIPOPHILICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; SOIL MICROFLORA; SOLUBILITY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TOXICITY TESTING;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYCLOTELLA MENEGHINIANA; PHOXINUS PHOXINUS; PIMEPHALES PROMELAS; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; UNCULTURED MARINE BACTERIUM; VIBRIO FISCHERI;

EID: 0031787991     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/1551-5028(1998)017<2134:TOCTAL>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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