Evaluation of the swimming activity of Daphnia magna by image analysis after administration of sublethal cadmium concentrations

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 99-105

  Wolf, Gretel ^a   Scheunders, Paul ^a   Selens, Marcel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Biomonitoring; Cadmium; Daphnia; Image analysis; Sublethal stress; Swimming activity; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM;

BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CONFERENCE PAPER; DAPHNIA; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STRESS; SWIMMING; TOXICITY;

DAPHNIA; DAPHNIA MAGNA;

EID: 0031852474     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1095-6433(98)10016-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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