Toxicity of cadmium and mercury to horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus) embryos and larvae

Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 137-143

  Botton, M L ^a  

^a FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; MERCURY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYOTOXICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ESTUARY; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; LC 50; LIMULUS; NONHUMAN; SEDIMENT; TOXICITY TESTING; WATER POLLUTION;

ANIMALS; CADMIUM; COPPER; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; HORSESHOE CRABS; LARVA; LETHAL DOSE 50; MERCURY; TIME FACTORS; TOXICITY TESTS; TRIALKYLTIN COMPOUNDS; ZINC;

ANIMALIA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); INVERTEBRATA; LIMULUS; LIMULUS POLYPHEMUS; MEROSTOMATA; POLYPHEMUS;

EID: 0033986731     PISSN: 00074861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001289910021     Document Type: Article

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