Acute toxicity of rice paddy herbicides simetryn, mefenacet, and thiobencarb to Silurana tropicalis tadpoles

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1165-1169

  Saka, Masahiro ^a  

^a Kyoto Prefectural Institute of Public Health and Environment   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute toxicity; Amphibians; Mefenacet; Silurana tropicalis; Simetryn; Thiobencarb

Indexed keywords

BENTHIOCARB; HERBICIDE; MEFENACET; SIMETRYNE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); HERBICIDE; PADDY FIELD; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POLLUTION EFFECT; TOAD; TOXICITY; TOXICITY TEST;

ACUTE TOXICITY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FROG; LC 50; MALE; NONHUMAN; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SILURANA TROPICALIS; SPECIES COMPARISON; TADPOLE; TOXICITY TESTING; VALIDATION PROCESS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ACETANILIDES; ACUTE TOXICITY TESTS; ANIMALS; BENZOTHIAZOLES; HERBICIDES; LARVA; LETHAL DOSE 50; ORYZA SATIVA; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; THIOCARBAMATES; TRIAZINES; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; XENOPUS;

AMPHIBIA; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS TROPICALIS;

EID: 77956227451     PISSN: 01476513     EISSN: 10902414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2010.05.008     Document Type: Article

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