Developing toxicity scores for embryotoxicity tests on elutriates with the sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus, the oyster Crassostrea gigas, and the mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis

Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 220-226

  Losso, Chiara ^a   Picone, Marco ^a   Novelli, Alessandra Arizzi ^a   Delaney, Eugenia ^b   Ghetti, Pier Francesco ^a   Ghirardini, Annamaria Volpi ^a  

^a CA' FOSCARI UNIVERSITY OF VENICE   (Italy)

^b THETIS S P A   (Italy)

Author keywords

Elutriates; Toxicity threshold; Venice Lagoon

Indexed keywords

BIOASSAY; BIVALVE; ECHINODERM; POLLUTION EFFECT; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; TOXICITY; TOXICITY TEST;

ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; CALCULATION; EMBRYOTOXICITY; MUSSEL; NONHUMAN; OYSTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEA URCHIN; SEDIMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; CRASSOSTREA; FEMALE; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; ITALY; MALE; MYTILUS; PARACENTROTUS; TOXICITY TESTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE; VENETO; VENEZIA [VENETO]; VENICE LAGOON;

CRASSOSTREA GIGAS; ECHINOIDA; ECHINOIDEA; MYTILUS GALLOPROVINCIALIS; OSTREIDAE; PARACENTROTUS LIVIDUS;

EID: 34250851730     PISSN: 00904341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00244-006-0136-x     Document Type: Article

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