Acute toxicity of chlorinated organic chemicals to the embryos and larvae of the marine worm Platynereis dumerilii (Polychaeta: Nereidae)

Environmental Toxicology and Water Quality

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 149-155

  Palau Casellas, Anna ^a   Hutchinson, Thomas H ^a  

^a ASTRAZENECA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

3,4 dichloroaniline; Chlorophenols; Marine toxicity; Platynereis dumerilii; Polychaete

Indexed keywords

ANILINE DERIVATIVE; CHLORINATED HYDROCARBON; PENTACHLOROPHENATE SODIUM; PHENOL; TRICHLOROPHENOL DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; ECOTOXICOLOGY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; INVERTEBRATE; LARVA; NONHUMAN; POLYCHAETA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA POLLUTION; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME; TOXICITY TESTING;

EID: 0031980612     PISSN: 10534725     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2256(1998)13:2<149::AID-TOX6>3.0.CO;2-7     Document Type: Article

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