Sub-lethal ammonia toxicity in largemouth bass

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 146, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 381-389

  Suski, C D ^a   Kieffer, J D ^b   Killen, S S ^a   Tufts, B L ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ammonia; Exercise; Largemouth bass; Micropterus salmoides; Recovery; Sub lethal; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA;

AMMONIA TOXICITY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BREATHING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EXERCISE; LARGEMOUTH BASS; NONHUMAN; SWIMMING; TOXICITY;

MICROPTERUS; MICROPTERUS SALMOIDES;

EID: 33847323066     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2006.11.005     Document Type: Article

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