Integrating individual ecdysteroid content and growth-related stressor endpoints to assess toxicity in a benthic harpacticoid copepod

Aquatic Toxicology

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 191-199

  Dahl, Ulrika ^a   Breitholtz, Magnus ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Crustacea; Development time; Endocrine; Growth rate; Lindane; Nitocra spinipes; Pesticide; Risk assessment; RNA

Indexed keywords

ECDYSTEROID; LINDANE; RNA;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BENTHOS; CHEMICAL POLLUTANT; CRUSTACEAN; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; GROWTH RATE; GROWTH RESPONSE; HCH; PESTICIDE; POLLUTION EFFECT; TOXICITY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPEPOD; DEVELOPMENT; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FEMALE; GROWTH; GROWTH RATE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS; TOXICITY;

ANIMALS; COPEPODA; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ECDYSTEROIDS; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; FEMALE; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; LINDANE; MALE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE;

COPEPODA; CRUSTACEA; HARPACTICOIDA; NITOCRA SPINIPES;

EID: 46749125002     PISSN: 0166445X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aquatox.2008.04.006     Document Type: Article

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