Effects of the herbicide Dicuran 500 FL upon the mitosis of the planarian Polycelis felina (Daly.)

Periodicum Biologorum

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 549-553

  Milić Štrkalj, Iva ^a   Kalafatić, Mirjana ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Herbicide; Mitotic activity; Mitotic and chromosomal aberrations; Polycelis felina (Daly.)

Indexed keywords

CHLORTOLURON; HERBICIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG EFFECT; MITOSIS; MITOSIS RATE; NONHUMAN; TELOMERE; TURBELLARIA;

EID: 2642600030     PISSN: 00315362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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