Alkaline comet assay as a potential tool in the assessment of DNA integrity in freshwater zooplankton affected by pollutants from water treatment facility

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution

Volumn 204, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 299-314

  Ternjej, Ivančica ^a   Stanković, Igor ^b   Mihaljević, Zlatko ^a   Furač, Lidija ^c   Želježić, Davor ^d   Kopjar, Nevenka ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b Hrvatske Vode   (Croatia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^d INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH AND OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Alkaline comet assay; Aluminium; Freshwater zooplankton; Genotoxicity; Water treatment facility pollution

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE COMET ASSAY; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENTS; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; BIOINDICATOR SPECIES; BIOMONITORING; CALANOIDA; COMET ASSAYS; CROATIANS; DAPHNIA; DAPHNIA MAGNA; DNA DAMAGES; DNA INTEGRITY; DRINKING WATER; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK ASSESSMENT; FEEDING MODES; FRESHWATER ZOOPLANKTON; GENOTOXIC; GENOTOXICITIES; HIGH SENSITIVITY; IN-CELL; PILOT STUDIES; PLANKTON COMMUNITIES; POTENTIAL TOOL; SAMPLING SITE; SEASONAL DIFFERENCES; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SHALLOW LAKES; TOXIC METALS; WATER TREATMENT FACILITIES; WATER TREATMENT PROCESS; ZOOPLANKTON SPECIES;

ALUMINUM; ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; ANIMALS; AQUACULTURE; CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); DAMAGE DETECTION; DNA; GENES; LAKES; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; NUCLEIC ACIDS; OCEAN HABITATS; POLLUTION DETECTION; POTABLE WATER; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; RISK PERCEPTION; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

WATER RECYCLING;

ALUMINUM; DNA;

ALUMINUM; BIOASSAY; BIOINDICATOR; BIOMONITORING; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DNA; DRINKING WATER; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; GENOTOXICITY; LAKE POLLUTION; POLLUTION MONITORING; RISK ASSESSMENT; WATER QUALITY; WATER TREATMENT; ZOOPLANKTON;

ALONELLA EXIGUA; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BOSMINA LONGIROSTRIS; CERIODAPHNIA; CHAOBORUS FLAVICANS; CHIDORUS; CLADOCERA; COMET ASSAY; COPEPOD; CROATIA; DAPHNIA; DIAPHANOSOMA BRACHYURUM; DNA DAMAGE; DNA DETERMINATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; EUDIAPTOMUS PADANUS ETRUSCUS; FLY; GENOME; GENOTOXICITY; INDICATOR ORGANISM; LAKE; MACROCYCLOPS ALBIDUS; MACROCYCLOPS FUSCUS; MEGACYCLOPS VIRIDIS; NONHUMAN; PLEUROXUS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENT; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPRING; THERMOCYCLOPS DYBOWSKII; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING; WATER TREATMENT; ZOOPLANKTON;

CROATIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ANIMALIA; CALANOIDA; CHAOBORUS; CHAOBORUS FLAVICANS; COPEPODA; CYCLOPOIDA; CYCLOPS (CRUSTACEAN); DAPHNIA; DAPHNIA MAGNA; DIPTERA; EUDIAPTOMUS PADANUS;

EID: 70949085700     PISSN: 00496979     EISSN: 15732932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11270-009-0046-4     Document Type: Article

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