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- Title
Acute toxicity of several pesticides, organic compounds, and a wastewater effluent to the freshwater mussel, Anodonta imbecilis, Ceriodaphnia dubia, and Pimephales promelas.
- Authors
Keller, Anne
- Abstract
The article presents a study which examines the effect of pesticides, organic compounds and wastewater effluent to freshwater mussel Anodonta imbecilis, Ceriodaphnia dubia and Pimephales promelas. The study uses toxicity tests, gas chromatography, and computerize Probit Analysis to determine the impact of pesticides, organic compounds and wastewater effluent to freshwater mussels. Results show that PCP chemical is the most toxic to A. imbecilis and methanol is the least toxic chemical.
- Subjects
PESTICIDE toxicology; ORGANIC compounds; SEWAGE; FRESHWATER mussels; METHANOL; TOXICITY testing; GAS chromatography; PROBIT analysis
- Publication
Bulletin of Environmental Contamination & Toxicology, 1993, Vol 51, Issue 5, p696
- ISSN
0007-4861
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/BF00201647