Life-cycle effects of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) on an estuarine meiobenthic copepod

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 40, Issue 23, 2006, Pages 7387-7393

  Templeton, Ryan C ^a   Ferguson, P Lee ^a   Washburn, Kate M ^a   Scrivens, Wally A ^a   Chandler, G Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOASSAY; CONSUMER ELECTRONICS; DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; TOXICITY; WASTEWATER;

MEIOBENTHIC COPEPOD; NANOMATERIALS; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWNT);

CARBON NANOTUBES;

CARBON NANOTUBE; SEA WATER;

BIOASSAY; CARBON NANOTUBES; CONSUMER ELECTRONICS; DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; TOXICITY; WASTEWATER;

BIOASSAY; CARBON; CRUSTACEAN; DISCHARGE; ESTUARINE POLLUTION; MEIOFAUNA; MORTALITY; TOXICITY; WASTEWATER;

ACUTE TOXICITY; ARTICLE; BENTHOS; BIOASSAY; CHRONIC TOXICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPEPOD; DEVELOPMENT; ELECTROPHORESIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ESTUARY; FERTILIZATION; FLUORESCENCE; LARVA; LIFE CYCLE; MOLTING; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PURIFICATION; REPRODUCTION; WASTE WATER;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; COPEPODA; FERTILITY; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; LINEAR MODELS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NANOTUBES, CARBON; TOXICITY TESTS;

AMPHIASCUS TENUIREMIS; COPEPODA;

EID: 33845308619     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es060407p     Document Type: Article

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