Comparative toxicity of two glyphosate formulations (original formulation of Roundup® and Roundup WeatherMAX®) to six North American larval anurans

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2756-2761

  Fuentes, Latice ^a   Moore, Lindsay J ^a   Rodgers, John H ^a   Bowerman, William W ^b   Yarrow, Gregory K ^a   Chao, Wayne Y ^a  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibian; Glyphosate; Polyethoxylated tallow amine; Roundup ; Tadpole

Indexed keywords

ACID EQUIVALENTS; AMPHIBIAN; COMPARATIVE TOXICITY; GLYPHOSATES; MEDIAN LETHAL CONCENTRATION; NORTH AMERICAN; OVERSPRAY; TADPOLE;

SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; TOXICITY;

HERBICIDES;

GLYPHOSATE; SURFACTANT;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DATA SET; FROG; GLYPHOSATE; LARVA; LIGAND; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SURFACTANT; THRESHOLD; TOXICITY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BUFO FOWLERI; CONTROLLED STUDY; FROG; LARVA; LC 50; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANA CLAMITANS; TOAD;

ANIMALS; ANURA; BUFONIDAE; GLYCINE; HERBICIDES; LARVA; LETHAL DOSE 50; RANIDAE; WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

NORTH AMERICA;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; BUFO FOWLERI; RANA CLAMITANS;

EID: 81155128688     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: 15528618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/etc.670     Document Type: Article

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