Acute toxicity bioassays of mercuric chloride and malathion on air-breathing fish Channa punctatus (Bloch)

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 114-120

  Pandey, Sanjay ^a   Kumar, Ravindra ^a   Sharma, Shilpi ^a   Nagpure, N S ^a   Srivastava, Satish K ^a   Verma, M S ^a  

^a NATIONAL BUREAU OF FISH GENETIC RESOURCES   (India)

Author keywords

Channa punctatus; Heavy metal; HgCl2; LC50; Malathion; Pesticide; Safe level; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

MALATHION; MERCURIC CHLORIDE;

BIOASSAY; FISH; ORGANOPHOSPHATE; PESTICIDE; TOXICITY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FISH; LC 50; LETHALITY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; TOXICITY TESTING;

EID: 16344365994     PISSN: 01476513     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2004.08.004     Document Type: Article

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