Primary screening of the bioactivity of brackishwater cyanobacteria: Toxicity of crude extracts to Artemia salina larvae and Paracentrotus lividus embryos

Marine Drugs

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 471-482

  Lopes, Viviana R ^a,b   Fernández, Nuria ^c   Martins, Rosário F ^a,d,e   Vasconcelos, Vitor ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

^d POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Benthic habitats; Brackishwater cyanobacteria; Brine shrimp Artemia salina lethality test; Sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus embryo larval bioassay

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; HEXANE; METHANOL; WATER; CYANOBACTERIAL TOXIN; MARINE TOXIN; MICROCYSTIN; SEA WATER;

ARTEMIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BENTHOS; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYOTOXICITY; ESTUARY; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; INVERTEBRATE; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; LETHALITY; NAUPLIUS (LARVA); NODULARIA; NONHUMAN; NOSTOC; PARACENTROTUS; PLANKTON; SEA URCHIN; SHRIMP; SYNECHOCYSTIS; TOXICITY TESTING; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECTS; LARVA; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; TOXICITY;

ARTEMIA; ARTEMIA SALINA; CYANOBACTERIA; CYANOBIUM; ECHINOIDEA; FUNGI; INVERTEBRATA; LEPTOLYNGBYA; MICROCOLEUS; NEGIBACTERIA; NODULARIA; NOSTOC; PARACENTROTUS LIVIDUS; PHORMIDIUM; SYNECHOCYSTIS; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; ARTEMIA; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CYANOBACTERIA; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; LARVA; MARINE TOXINS; MICROCYSTINS; PARACENTROTUS; SEAWATER; TOXICITY TESTS;

EID: 77952511931     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16603397     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/md8030471     Document Type: Article

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