Acute oral toxicity of the organophosphorus pesticide fenitrothion to fat-tailed and stripe-faced dunnarts and its relevance for pesticide risk assessments in Australia

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1163-1169

  Story, Paul ^a,c   Hooper, Michael J ^b   Astheimer, Lee B ^c   Buttemer, William A ^c  

^a Australian Plague Locust Commission   (Australia)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acute oral toxicity; Dunnart; Fenitrothion; Median lethal dose; Species sensitivity distribution

Indexed keywords

ACUTE ORAL TOXICITY; DUNNART; FENITROTHION; LETHAL DOSE; SPECIES SENSITIVITY DISTRIBUTION;

AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS; DETOXIFICATION; MAMMALS; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PUMPS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TOXICITY;

INSECTICIDES;

FENITROTHION; ORGANOPHOSPHATE PESTICIDE;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; ENDEMIC SPECIES; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; MARSUPIAL; METABOLISM; ORGANOPHOSPHATE; PESTICIDE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TOXICITY;

ACUTE TOXICITY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; DETOXIFICATION; DUNNART; ECOTOXICITY; FAUNA; FEMALE; LD 50; MALE; MAMMAL; MARSUPIAL; METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; VERTEBRATE;

ACUTE TOXICITY TESTS; ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; CHOLINESTERASES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; FENITROTHION; INSECTICIDES; MALE; MARSUPIALIA; MOUTH; RISK ASSESSMENT;

AUSTRALIA;

EUTHERIA; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; MUS MUSCULUS; SMINTHOPSIS; SMINTHOPSIS CRASSICAUDATA; SMINTHOPSIS MACROURA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79953759776     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: 15528618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/etc.478     Document Type: Article

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