Acute toxicity of potassium permanganate to fingerlings of the African catfish, Clarias gariepinus (Burchell, 1822)

African Journal of Biotechnology

Volumn 7, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 2514-2520

  Kori Siakpere, Ovie ^a  

^a DELTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Acute toxicity; Behaviour; Clarias gariepinus; LC50; LT50; Nigeria; Potassium permanganate

Indexed keywords

PERMANGANATE POTASSIUM;

ACUTE TOXICITY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; CATFISH; CLARIAS GARIEPINUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FINGERLING; LC 50; NIGERIA; NONHUMAN; SWIMMING; TOXICITY TESTING; WATER QUALITY;

CLARIAS GARIEPINUS;

EID: 48149100430     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16845315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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