Selenium assimilation and loss by an insect predator and its relationship to Se subcellular partitioning in two prey types

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 157, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 772-777

  Dubois, Maïtée ^a   Hare, Landis ^a  

^a CENTRE EAU TERRE ENVIRONNEMENT   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chironomus; Selenium; Subcellular partitioning; Trophic transfer; Tubifex

Indexed keywords

CHIRONOMUS; CHIRONOMUS RIPARIUS; ELEMENT TRANSFERS; EXPOSURE DURATIONS; INSECT PREDATORS; MEAN PERCENTAGES; PREDATORY INSECTS; SUBCELLULAR PARTITIONING; TROPHIC TRANSFER; TUBIFEX; TUBIFEX TUBIFEXES;

CADMIUM; CHEMICAL ELEMENTS; THALLIUM; TRACE ELEMENTS;

SELENIUM;

CADMIUM; NICKEL; SELENIUM; THALLIUM;

FLY; PREDATOR; PROTEIN; SELENIUM; TRACE ELEMENT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANNELID WORM; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CELL LEVEL; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHIRONOMIDAE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; NONHUMAN; POLLUTION; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; TISSUE LEVEL;

ANIMALS; CADMIUM; CHIRONOMIDAE; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; NICKEL; OLIGOCHAETA; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SELENIUM; THALLIUM;

CHIRONOMUS RIPARIUS; HEXAPODA; SIALIS VELATA; TUBIFEX; TUBIFEX TUBIFEX;

EID: 58249141851     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2008.11.022     Document Type: Article

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