Toxicity and differential tissue accumulation of copper in the tropical freshwater fish, Prochilodus scrofa (Prochilodontidae)

Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 797-804

  Mazon, A F ^a   Fernandes, M N ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO CARLOS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER; FRESH WATER;

ALKALINITY; AQUATIC FAUNA; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; PH; PHOTOPERIODICITY; RIVER; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TEMPERATURE; WATER POLLUTION;

ANIMALS; COPPER; FISHES; LETHAL DOSE 50; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0032787092     PISSN: 00074861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001289901049     Document Type: Article

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