Effects of water quality and fish size on toxicity of methiocarb, a carbamate pesticide, to rainbow trout

Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 20-26

  Altinok, Ilhan ^a   Capkin, Erol ^a   Karahan, Siyami ^b   Boran, Muhammet ^a  

^a KARADENIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b KIRIKKALE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Acute toxicity test; Alkalinity; Hardness; Mesurol; Oncorhynchus mykiss; Pesticide

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CARBONATE; CARBAMATE PESTICIDE; METHIOCARB;

ACUTE TOXICITY; ALKALINITY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NECROSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FISH; LC 50; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE CELL; RAINBOW TROUT; TOXICITY TESTING; WATER HARDNESS; WATER QUALITY; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS;

EID: 33646777424     PISSN: 13826689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.etap.2005.11.002     Document Type: Article

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