Residuebased mercury dose-response in fish: An analysis using lethalityequivalent test endpoints

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2559-2565

  Dillon, Tom ^a   Beckvar, Nancy ^b   Kern, John ^c  

^a C/o US Environmental Protection Agency Superfund ^*  (United States)

^b National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration   (United States)

^c Kern Statistical Services Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Dose response; Fish; Injury; Mercury; Residueeffects

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE EFFECT; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; DOSE RESPONSE; DOSE RESPONSE RELATIONSHIPS; DOSE-RESPONSE CURVES; EARLY LIFE; INJURY; MERCURY; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; RESIDUEEFFECTS; TISSUE RESIDUE; TOXICITY TEST;

EXTRAPOLATION; FISH; TOXICITY;

MERCURY (METAL);

MERCURY;

ADULT; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BIOACCUMULATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; ECOTOXICOLOGY; FISH; GROWTH RESPONSE; INJURY; JUVENILE; MERCURY (ELEMENT); POLLUTANT; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SURVIVAL; TOXICITY TEST; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; FISH; JUVENILE ANIMAL; LETHALITY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL; TOXICITY TESTING; ANIMAL; BIOASSAY; DOSE RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; METABOLISM; WATER POLLUTANT;

ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENDPOINT DETERMINATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISHES; MERCURY; TOXICITY TESTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 78649595392     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: 15528618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/etc.314     Document Type: Article

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