Toxicity of Deepwater Horizon Source Oil and the Chemical Dispersant, Corexit® 9500, to Coral Larvae

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Goodbody Gringley, Gretchen ^a,b   Wetzel, Dana L ^a   Gillon, Daniel ^a   Pulster, Erin ^a   Miller, Allison ^a   Ritchie, Kim B ^a  

^a MOTE MARINE LABORATORY   (United States)

^b BERMUDA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Bermuda)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OIL DISPERSANT;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORAL; CORAL REEF; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; LARVA; MONTASTRAEA FAVEOLATA; NONHUMAN; OIL SPILL; POPULATION RECOVERY; PORITES ASTREOIDES; SPAWNING; SURVIVAL FACTOR; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FLORIDA; GULF OF MEXICO; LARVA; LINEAR MODELS; LIPIDS; PETROLEUM; PETROLEUM POLLUTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TOXICITY TESTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ANTHOZOA; MONTASTRAEA FAVEOLATA; PORITES ASTREOIDES;

EID: 84872196633     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0045574     Document Type: Article

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