Mixtures of metals and polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons elicit complex, nonadditive toxicological interactions in meiobenthic copepods

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1677-1685

  Fleeger, John W ^a   Gust, Kurt A ^a   Marlborough, Sidney J ^a   Tita, Guglielmo ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Meiobenthic copepods; Metals; Polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons; Sediment toxicity; Synergisms

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; IMPURITIES; MERCURY (METAL); MIXTURES; SEDIMENTS; TOXICITY;

MEIOBENTHIC COPEPODS; SEDIMENT TOXICITY; SYNERGISMS;

POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS;

CADMIUM; FLUORANTHENE; LEAD; MERCURY; METAL DERIVATIVE; PHENANTHRENE; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON DERIVATIVE;

CRUSTACEAN; METAL; PAH; POLLUTION TOLERANCE; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SYNERGISM; TOXICITY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BENTHOS; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPEPOD; FEMALE; LETHALITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; TOXICITY TESTING;

ANIMALS; CADMIUM; COPEPODA; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FLUORENES; LEAD; MERCURY; METALS; PHENANTHRENES; TOXICITY TESTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

AMPHIASCOIDES ATOPUS; COPEPODA; SCHIZOPERA KNABENI;

EID: 34547962672     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/06-397R.1     Document Type: Article

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