Subchronic exposure to nitrite, potassium and their combination on survival, growth, total haemocyte count and gill structure of juvenile blue swimmer crabs, Portunus pelagicus

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1287-1295

  Romano, Nicholas ^a   Zeng, Chaoshu ^a,b  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b SHANGHAI OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chronic nitrite; Chronic potassium; Gill histology; Molt death syndrome; Portunus pelagicus; Total haemocyte count

Indexed keywords

NITRITE; POTASSIUM; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CRAB; GROWTH RATE; HISTOLOGY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; JUVENILE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MORTALITY; NITRITE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; POTASSIUM; SURVIVAL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRAB; DEATH; FEMALE; GILL; GROWTH RATE; HEALING; HEMOLYMPH; HISTOPATHOLOGY; JUVENILE; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MOLTING; NONHUMAN; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL; SWIMMING;

ANIMALS; BRACHYURA; CELL COUNT; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; GILLS; GROWTH; HEMOCYTES; NITRITES; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; REFERENCE STANDARDS; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALIA; PORTUNUS PELAGICUS;

EID: 64649091104     PISSN: 01476513     EISSN: 10902414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2009.02.003     Document Type: Article

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