Marine aggregates facilitate ingestion of nanoparticles by suspension-feeding bivalves

Marine Environmental Research

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 137-142

  Ward, J Evan ^a   Kach, Dustin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregates; Blue mussel; Eastern oyster; Ingestion; Nanoparticles

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ORGANISMS; BLUE MUSSEL; CRASSOSTREA VIRGINICA; DIGESTIVE GLANDS; EASTERN OYSTER; ECOTOXICOLOGICAL EFFECTS; HARMFUL EFFECTS; INDIVIDUAL PARTICLES; INGESTION; MARINE AGGREGATES; MYTILUS EDULIS; NANO-MATERIALS; POLYSTYRENE BEADS; RETENTION EFFICIENCIES; RETENTION TIME; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; SUSPENDED PARTICLES; TOXICOLOGICAL EFFECTS; TROPHIC LEVEL;

AGGREGATES; AQUACULTURE; FEEDING; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; POLYSTYRENES; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

AGGLOMERATION;

NANOPARTICLE; POLYSTYRENE;

AGGREGATE; BIOLOGICAL UPTAKE; BIVALVE; DIGESTION; ECOTOXICOLOGY; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; INGESTION RATE; LABORATORY METHOD; PARTICLE SIZE; RETENTION; TOXICOLOGY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIVALVE; CRASSOSTREA VIRGINICA; DISPERSION; ECOTOXICITY; EMBEDDING; FOOD INTAKE; MUSSEL; NONHUMAN; OYSTER; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; TROPHIC LEVEL;

ANIMALS; CRASSOSTREA; INTESTINES; MYTILUS EDULIS; NANOPARTICLES; POLYSTYRENES; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

BIVALVIA; CRASSOSTREA VIRGINICA; INVERTEBRATA; MYTILUS EDULIS; OSTREIDAE; PISCES;

EID: 67649859284     PISSN: 01411136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2009.05.002     Document Type: Article

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