An integrated multi-disciplinary approach for studying multiple stressors in freshwater ecosystems: Daphnia as a model organism

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 623-633

  Altshuler, Ianina ^a   Demiri, Bora ^a   Xu, Sen ^a   Constantin, Anna ^a   Yan, Norman D ^a,b   Cristescu, Melania E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; FRESH WATER; METAL; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DAPHNIA; DRUG EFFECT; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; GENOME; MUTATION RATE; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTANT;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CALCIUM; CLIMATE CHANGE; DAPHNIA; ECOSYSTEM; FRESH WATER; GENOME; METALS; MUTATION RATE; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TRANSCRIPTOME; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

CRUSTACEA; DAPHNIA; DAPHNIIDAE;

EID: 80053288454     PISSN: 15407063     EISSN: 15577023     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icb/icr103     Document Type: Conference Paper

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