Rapid ecotoxicological bioassay of nickel and cadmium using motility and photosynthetic parameters of Euglena gracilis

Environmental and Experimental Botany

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 68-75

  Ahmed, Hoda ^a   Häder, Donat Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cd; Euglena gracilis; Fluorescence parameters; Movement parameters; Ni; PAM

Indexed keywords

BIOASSAY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOTOXICOLOGY; EFFECTIVE STRESS; FLAGELLATE; FLUOROMETRY; HEAVY METAL; MOTILITY; PARAMETERIZATION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; POLLUTION MONITORING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TOXICITY; TOXICITY TEST;

EUGLENA GRACILIS;

EID: 77950519206     PISSN: 00988472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envexpbot.2010.02.009     Document Type: Article

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