Chronic toxicity bioassay with populations of the crustacean Artemia salina exposed to the organophosphate diazinon

A chronic toxicity bioassay was conducted with the microcrustacean Artemia salina as the testing organism for the toxic organophosphate diazinon in order to determine if the species is an appropriate indicator of pollution in aquatic environments. Tests of animal exposure to different concentrations...

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Main Authors: Eduardo Bustos-Obregon, Álvaro Vargas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2010-01-01
Series:Biological Research
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0716-97602010000300013