Effect of TiO2 nanoparticles in the earthworm reproduction test

Environmental Sciences Europe

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Schlich, Karsten ^a,b   Terytze, Konstantin ^b   Hund Rinke, Kerstin ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND APPLIED ECOLOGY IME   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Earthworm reproduction; Ecotoxicity; TiO2 nanoparticles

Indexed keywords

EISENIA ANDREI;

EID: 84867149570     PISSN: 21904707     EISSN: 21904715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2190-4715-24-5     Document Type: Article

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