Temporal and seasonal variation in acetylcholinesterase activity and glutathione-S-transferase in amphipods collected in mats of Lyngbya wollei in the St-Lawrence River (Canada)

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Volumn 94, Issue , 2013, Pages 54-59

  Gélinas, Malorie ^a,b   Lajeunesse, André ^b   Gagnon, Christian ^b   Gagné, François ^b  

^a INRS INSTITUT ARMAND FRAPPIER   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acetylcholinesterase; Amphipods; Glutathione s transferase; Lyngbya wollei; St Lawrence River

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; BACTERIAL TOXIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; PHOSPHOPROTEIN;

AMPHIPOD; BODY MASS; CYANOBACTERIUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; PHOSPHATE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TOXICITY;

AMPHIPODA; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; CANADA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DRY WEIGHT; ECOTOXICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENZYME ACTIVITY; LYNGBYA; LYNGBYA WOLLEI; MACROPHYTE; MICROCYSTIS; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; SEASONAL VARIATION; WATER SAMPLING;

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; AMPHIPODA; ANIMALS; CANADA; CYANOBACTERIA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; RIVERS; SAXITOXIN; SEASONS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

SAINT LAWRENCE RIVER;

ALGAE; AMPHIPODA; CYANOBACTERIA; LYNGBYA WOLLEI; MICROCYSTIS SP.;

EID: 84879012709     PISSN: 01476513     EISSN: 10902414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2013.04.017     Document Type: Article

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