Copper toxicity across salinities from freshwater to seawater in the euryhaline fish Fundulus heteroclitus: Is copper an ionoregulatory toxicant in high salinities?

Aquatic Toxicology

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 131-139

  Blanchard, Jonathan ^a   Grosell, Martin ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Cu toxicity; Ionoregulation; Killifish; Marine fish; Nitrogen excretion

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; AMMONIA; CARBONATE DEHYDRATASE; CHLORIDE; COPPER; FRESH WATER; ION; POTASSIUM; SEA WATER; SODIUM;

AMMONIA; COPPER; FISH; MORTALITY; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; SALINITY; TOXICITY;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXCRETION; FISH; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; GILL; INTESTINE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MEASUREMENT; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALINITY; SAMPLING; SODIUM TRANSPORT;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; AMMONIA; ANIMALS; CARBONIC ANHYDRASES; CHLORINE; COPPER; FRESH WATER; FUNDULIDAE; GILLS; INTESTINES; SEAWATER; SODIUM; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

FUNDULUS HETEROCLITUS;

EID: 33750061322     PISSN: 0166445X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aquatox.2006.08.001     Document Type: Article

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