Morphological features and comet assay of green and brown hydra treated with aluminium

Symbiosis

Volumn 44, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 145-152

  Kovačević, Goran ^a   Želježić, Davor ^b   Horvatin, Karlo ^a   Kalafatić, Mirjana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH AND OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Aluminium; Brown hydra; Comet assay; DNA damage; Green hydra; Morphological changes; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BIOASSAY; BIOMONITORING; ENDOSYMBIONT; INVERTEBRATE; MORPHOLOGY; MORTALITY; REPRODUCTION; TOXICITY TEST;

CNIDARIA; COELENTERATA; HYDRA; HYDRA OLIGACTIS; HYDRA VIRIDIS; HYDRIDAE;

EID: 34347333264     PISSN: 03345114     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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