Interactive cellular and physiological responses of the freshwater crab Potamonautes warreni to cadmium and microbial gill infestations

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 302-310

  Schuwerack, P M M ^a,b   Lewis, J W ^b   Jones, P W ^c  

^a Britannia Royal Naval College   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Freshwater crab Potamonautes warreni; Interactions of microbial gill infestation and Cd; Time and stressor specific cellular and physiological interconnected responses

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; CADMIUM; FRESH WATER; OXYGEN;

CADMIUM; CRAB; GROWTH RATE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PARASITE INFESTATION; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRAB; FEMALE; GAS EXCHANGE; GILL; GROWTH RATE; ION EXCHANGE; MALE; NONHUMAN; RIVER; SOUTH AFRICA;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BRACHYURA; CADMIUM; FEMALE; FRESH WATER; GILLS; HEMOLYMPH; MALE; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; SEASONS; SOUTH AFRICA; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

AFRICA; KWAZULU-NATAL; MOOI RIVER; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); INVERTEBRATA; POTAMONAUTES WARRENI;

EID: 34247637680     PISSN: 01476513     EISSN: 10902414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2006.08.010     Document Type: Article

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