Assessing toxicity of nanoparticles using Brachionus manjavacas (Rotifera)

Environmental Toxicology

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 146-152

  Snell, Terry W ^a   Hicks, Daniel G ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ingestion; Nanoparticle; Population growth rate; Reproduction; Rotifer

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE EFFECT; BRACHIONUS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; COASTAL MARINE ECOSYSTEMS; CRITICAL FACTORS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLUORESCENT NANOPARTICLES; INDICATOR SPECIES; INGESTION; NANOPARTICLE SIZES; NO REDUCTION; POPULATION GROWTH RATE; POPULATION GROWTH RATES; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE RATES; ROTIFER; ROTIFERA; SALT LAKES;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEMS; GROWTH RATE; POPULATION STATISTICS;

NANOPARTICLES;

NANOPARTICLE;

BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; BIOINDICATOR; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ECOTOXICOLOGY; FITNESS; GRAZING; GROWTH RATE; INGESTION RATE; INVERTEBRATE; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; POPULATION GROWTH; REPRODUCTION; TOXICITY TEST; ZOOPLANKTON;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; INGESTION; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; POPULATION GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; ROTIFERA;

ANIMALS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; NANOPARTICLES; PARTICLE SIZE; REPRODUCTION; ROTIFERA; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ANIMALIA; BRACHIONUS; ROTIFERA;

EID: 79952759144     PISSN: 15204081     EISSN: 15227278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tox.20538     Document Type: Article

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