Responses in a fathead minnow (pimephales promelas) lifecycle test and in wild white sucker (catostomus commersoni) exposed to a canadian bleached kraft mill effluent

Water Quality Research Journal of Canada

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 187-200

  Parrott, Joanne L ^a   Mark Hewitt, L ^a   Kovacs, Tibor G ^b   Maclatchy, Deborah L ^c   Martel, Pierre H ^b   ven den Heuvel, Michael R ^d   van der Kraak, Glen J ^e   McMaster, Mark E ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b FPINNOVATIONS   (Canada)

^c WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

BKME; Fathead minnow; Lifecycle; Liver size; Reproduction; Wild fish

Indexed keywords

BLEACHING; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLEANING; FISH; KRAFT PROCESS;

BKME; BLEACHED KRAFT MILLS; EFFLUENT CONCENTRATIONS; FATHEAD MINNOW; PIMEPHALES PROMELAS; PULP AND PAPER MILL EFFLUENTS; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE EFFECTS;

LIFE CYCLE;

BIOASSAY; BODY SIZE; CYPRINID; EGG PRODUCTION; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; LABORATORY METHOD; LIFE CYCLE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; WILD POPULATION;

BLEACHING; CLEANING; FISHES; KRAFT PULPS; PAPER MILLS; PULP MILLS; REPRODUCTION;

CANADA; LA TUQUE; QUEBEC [CANADA];

CATOSTOMUS COMMERSONI; PIMEPHALES PROMELAS;

EID: 78751480384     PISSN: 12013080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wqrj.2010.022     Document Type: Article

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