Inheritance of mercury tolerance in the aquatic oligochaete Tubifex tubifex

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 2130-2135

  Vidal, Dora Elva ^a   Horne, Alex John ^b  

^a SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA COASTAL WATER RESEARCH PROJECT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acclimation; Adaptation; Mercury; Oligochaetes; Tolerance

Indexed keywords

IMPURITIES; SEDIMENTS; TOXICITY;

INVERTEBRATES;

MERCURY (METAL);

MERCURY;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANNELID WORM; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BENTHOS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC PARAMETERS; GENOTYPE; INVERTEBRATE; LABORATORY; LC 50; METAL TOLERANCE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; TOXICITY TESTING; TUBIFEX TUBIFEX; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; DRUG RESISTANCE; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; LETHAL DOSE 50; MALE; MERCURY; OLIGOCHAETA; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ANIMALIA; ANNELIDA; INVERTEBRATA; OLIGOCHAETA (METAZOA); TUBIFEX TUBIFEX;

EID: 0242350447     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/02-407     Document Type: Article

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