Effects of salinity stress on Bufo balearicus and Bufo bufo tadpoles: Tolerance, morphological gill alterations and Na+/K+-ATPase localization

Aquatic Toxicology

Volumn 132-133, Issue , 2013, Pages 119-133

  Bernabò, Ilaria ^a   Bonacci, Antonella ^a   Coscarelli, Francesca ^a   Tripepi, Manuela ^b   Brunelli, Elvira ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Gills; Growth; Metamorphosis; Na+ K+ ATPase activity; Salinity; Tadpoles

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE (POTASSIUM SODIUM);

ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GROWTH; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; METAMORPHOSIS; MORPHOLOGY; SALINIZATION; SUBLETHAL EFFECT; SURVIVAL; TOAD;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; ARTICLE; BUFO BALEARICUS; BUFO BUFO; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; GILL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOLOCALIZATION; LARVA; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; METAMORPHOSIS; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; OSMOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION; SALT STRESS; SALT TOLERANCE; TADPOLE; WATER QUALITY;

ANIMALS; BUFONIDAE; ECOSYSTEM; GILLS; ITALY; LARVA; METAMORPHOSIS, BIOLOGICAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; SALT-TOLERANCE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SODIUM-POTASSIUM-EXCHANGING ATPASE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84874782160     PISSN: 0166445X     EISSN: 18791514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aquatox.2013.01.019     Document Type: Article

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