Behavioral responses of rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss to sublethal toxicity of a model mixture of heavy metals

Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 845-852

  Svecevicius G ^a  

^a VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAVY METAL;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FISH; LETHALITY; LOCOMOTION; NONHUMAN; RAINBOW TROUT; TOXICITY TESTING; WATER POLLUTION; ANIMAL; BREATHING; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; COUGHING; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG COMBINATION; DRUG EFFECT; EVALUATION; GILL; LD 50; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; WATER POLLUTANT;

ANIMALIA; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COUGH; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG COMBINATIONS; GILLS; LETHAL DOSE 50; METALS, HEAVY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; REACTION TIME; RESPIRATION; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 24344453877     PISSN: 00074861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00128-005-0658-3     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. Atchison GJ, Henry MG, Sandheinrich MB (1987) Effects of metals on fish behavior: A review. Environ Biol Fish 18:11-25
2. Beitinger TL, Freeman L (1983) Behavioral avoidance and selection of fishes to chemicals. Res Rev 90:35-55
3. Brown SB, Evans RE, Thompson BE, Hara TJ (1982) Chemoreception and aquatic pollutants. In: Hara TJ (ed) Chemoreception in fishes. Dev Aquacult Fish Sci 8:362-393
4. Cairns JJr, van der Schalie WH (1980) Biological monitoring, part I - early warning systems. Water Res 14: 1179-1196
5. Cairns MA, Garton RR, Tubb RA (1982) Use of fish ventilation frequency to estimate chronically safe toxicant concentrations. Trans American Fish Soc 111:70-77
6. Ellgaard EG, Ashley SE, Langford AE, Harlin DC (1995) Kinetic analysis of the swimming behavior of the goldfish (Carassius auratus) exposed to nickel: Hypoactivity induced by sublethal concentrations. Bull Environ Contam Toxicol 55: 929-936
7. Giattina JD, Garton RR (1983) A review of the preference-avoidance responses of fish to contaminants. Res Rev 87:43-90
8. Little EE, Finger SE (1990) Swimming behavior as an indicator of sublethal toxicity in fish. Environ Toxicol Chem 9: 13-19
9. Scherer E (1992) Behavioural responses as indicators of environmental alterations: Approches, results, developments. J Appl Ichthyol 8:122-131
10. Scherer E, Harrison SE, Brown SB (1986) Locomotor activity and blood plasma parameters of acid-exposed lake whitefish (Coregonus clupeaformis). Canadian J Fish Aquat Sci 43: 1556-1561
11. Svecevičius G (1991) The role of olfaction in avoidance reactions to pollutants by vimba (Vimba vimba (L.)). Ekologija 4:3-8
12. Svecevičius G (2001) Avoidance response of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) to heavy metal model mixtures: A comparison with acute toxicity tests. Bull Environ Contam Toxicol 67: 680-687
13. van Leeuwen CJ, Hermens JLM (eds) (1995) Risk assessment of chemicals: An introduction. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Boston, London
14. Wedemeyer GA, McLeay DJ (1981). Methods for determining the tolerance of fishes to environmental stressors. In: Pickering AD (ed) Stress and fish. Academic Press, London, p 247