Assessing Different Mechanisms of Toxicity in Mountaintop Removal/Valley Fill Coal Mining-Affected Watershed Samples Using Caenorhabditis elegans

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Turner, Elena A ^a   Kroeger, Gretchen L ^a   Arnold, Mariah C ^a   Thornton, B Lila ^a   Di Giulio, Richard T ^a   Meyer, Joel N ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAL; METALLOID; SELENIUM;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COAL MINING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOTOXICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GROWTH INHIBITION; MICROBIAL GROWTH; NONHUMAN; OSMOTIC STRESS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; SEDIMENT; STREAM (RIVER); TOXICITY TESTING; WATERSHED;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COAL MINING; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84884191966     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0075329     Document Type: Article

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