Toxicity testing of crude oil and related compounds using early life stages of the crimson-spotted rainbowfish (Melanotaenia fluviatilis)

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 180-189

  Pollino, Carmel A ^a   Holdway, Douglas A ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acute toxicity; Crude oil; Dispersant; Early life stages; Fish

Indexed keywords

HYDROCARBON; PETROLEUM;

CRUDE OIL; FISH; HYDROCARBON; TOXICITY TEST;

ACUTE TOXICITY; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; CHORION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOTOXICITY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HATCHING; HEART EDEMA; JAW MALFORMATION; MALE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; RAINBOW TROUT; SURVIVAL; TOXICITY TESTING; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL EMBRYO; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DRUG EFFECT; FISH; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LARVA; LD 50; WATER POLLUTANT;

MELANOTAENIA; MELANOTAENIA FLUVIATILIS;

ABNORMALITIES; ANIMALS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FISHES; LARVA; LETHAL DOSE 50; PETROLEUM; WATER POLLUTANTS;

EID: 0036020104     PISSN: 01476513     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/eesa.2002.2190     Document Type: Article

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