Changes in membrane phospholipids as a mechanistic explanation for decreased freeze tolerance in earthworms exposed to sublethal copper concentrations

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 5495-5500

  Bindesbøl, Anne Mette ^a   Bayley, Mark ^a   Damgaard, Christian ^a   Hedlund, Katarina ^b   Holmstrup, Martin ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER CONCENTRATION; DENDROBAENA OCTAEDRA; DRY SOIL; FREEZE TOLERANCE; FREEZING TEMPERATURES; FULL FACTORIAL DESIGN; LINOLEIC ACID; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LOW TEMPERATURES; MEMBRANE DAMAGE; MEMBRANE PHOSPHOLIPIDS; SUB-ZERO TEMPERATURES;

ACIDS; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; CYTOLOGY; FATTY ACIDS; FREEZING; MEMBRANES; PHOSPHOLIPIDS;

CELL MEMBRANES;

COPPER; FATTY ACID; LINOLEIC ACID; MEMBRANE PHOSPHOLIPID; POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACID;

COPPER; EARTHWORM; ECOTOXICOLOGY; FREEZE TOLERANCE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MEMBRANE; PHOSPHOLIPID; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDROBAENA OCTAEDRA; EARTHWORM; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FREEZING TOLERANCE; LIPID ANALYSIS; LIPID COMPOSITION; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LOW TEMPERATURE; MEMBRANE DAMAGE; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; SOIL TEMPERATURE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; COLD TEMPERATURE; COPPER; FATTY ACIDS; FREEZING; MEMBRANE LIPIDS; OLIGOCHAETA; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

DENDROBAENA OCTAEDRA;

EID: 67650483694     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es900898y     Document Type: Article

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