Use of transgenic GFP reporter strains of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans to investigate the patterns of stress responses induced by pesticides and by organic extracts from agricultural soils

Ecotoxicology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 72-85

  Anbalagan, Charumathi ^a   Lafayette, Ivan ^a   Antoniou Kourounioti, Melissa ^a   Gutierrez, Carmen ^b   Martin, Jose Rodriguez ^c   Chowdhuri, Debapratim K ^d   De Pomerai, David I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS AGRARIAS   (Spain)

^c Instituto Nacional de Investigacion y Tecnologia Agraria y Alimentaria   (Spain)

^d CSIR INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TOXICOLOGY RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

C. elegans; GFP reporter transgene; Pesticides; Soil organic residues; Stress response

Indexed keywords

ACETONE; DICHLOROMETHANE; DICHLORVOS; DIURON; ENDOSULFAN; GLYPHOSATE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; METAL; PESTICIDE; SOIL PORE WATER; SOLVENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER;

AGRICULTURAL SOIL; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENDOSULFAN; GENE EXPRESSION; GLYPHOSATE; METAL; NEMATODE; PESTICIDE RESIDUE; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; POREWATER; TOXICITY;

AGRICULTURAL SOIL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAULIFLOWER; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYP GENE; EVAPORATION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; LETTUCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTION; SPAIN; STRESS; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; METALS; PESTICIDE RESIDUES; PESTICIDES; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS; SPAIN; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TRANSGENES;

SPAIN;

BRASSICA OLERACEA VAR. BOTRYTIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; LACTUCA;

EID: 84871616538     PISSN: 09639292     EISSN: 15733017     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10646-012-1004-2     Document Type: Article

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