Uranium uptake and depuration in the aquatic invertebrate Chironomus tentans

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 158, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1696-1701

  Muscatello, Jorgelina R ^a   Liber, Karsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chironomus tentans; Uranium; Uranium depuration; Uranium uptake

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE MECHANISM; AQUATIC INVERTEBRATES; CHIRONOMUS; CHIRONOMUS TENTANS; CLEAN WATERS; DEPURATION; DETOXIFICATION MECHANISM; PASSIVE MECHANISM; REALLOCATION OF RESOURCES; STEADY-STATE CONDITION; TISSUE CONCENTRATIONS;

ANIMALS; DETOXIFICATION; EXPERIMENTS; URANIUM;

TRANSURANIUM ELEMENTS;

URANIUM;

BIOLOGICAL UPTAKE; DEPURATION; DETOXIFICATION; FLY; GROWTH; LARVA; URANIUM;

ALKALINITY; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHIRONOMIDAE; CHIRONOMUS TENTANS; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DETOXIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HARDNESS; METAL METABOLISM; MINING; NONHUMAN; PH; TEMPERATURE; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY;

ANIMALS; CHIRONOMIDAE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LARVA; URANIUM; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ANIMALIA; CHIRONOMIDAE; CHIRONOMUS TENTANS; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 77949912487     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2009.11.032     Document Type: Article

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