Toxicity of sediment associated PAHs to the estuarine crustaceans, Palaemonetes pugio and Amphiascus tenuiremis

Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 637-644

  Wirth, E F ^a,b   Fulton, M H ^a   Chandler, G T ^b   Key, P B ^a   Scott, G I ^a  

^a CENTER FOR COASTAL ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AND BIOMOLECULAR RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON;

ARTICLE; CRUSTACEA; ESTUARY; NONHUMAN; SEDIMENT; TOXICITY TESTING; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ANIMALS; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; LARVA; LETHAL DOSE 50; P-AMINOHIPPURIC ACID; SOIL POLLUTANTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 0032407398     PISSN: 00074861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001289900808     Document Type: Article

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