The toxicity of dithiocarbamate fungicides to soil nematodes, assessed using a stress-inducible transgenic strain of Caenorhabditis elegans

Journal of Biochemical and Molecular Toxicology

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 324-333

  Guven, Kemal ^a   Power, Rowena S ^b   Avramides, Sophia ^b   Allender, Rebecca ^b   De Pomerai, David I ^b  

^a DICLE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dithiocarbamate; Fungicide; Heat Shock Response; Nematode; Stress Inducible; Toxicity; Transgenic

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; FUNGICIDE; MANCOZEB; MANEB; MANGANESE; ZINC; ZINEB;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHEMISTRY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; INTOXICATION; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SOIL; STRESS; TOXICITY TESTING; TRANSGENIC ORGANISM;

ANIMALS; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FUNGICIDES, INDUSTRIAL; MANEB; MANGANESE; MANGANESE POISONING; ORGANISMS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; SOIL; STRESS; TOXICITY TESTS; ZINC; ZINEB;

EID: 0032604999     PISSN: 10956670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-0461(1999)13:6<324::AID-JBT6>3.0.CO;2-Q     Document Type: Article

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