Interclonal variation in the performance of Daphnia-magna Straus in chronic bioassays

As an ecotoxicological test organism, Daphnia magna Straus has a long history and is now used extensively. Despite this, considerable variation in interlaboratory bioassays using the same reference toxicant has been reported. Using a standard quantitative genetics approach, the relative tolerance of...

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Main Author: Soares, Amadeu M. V. M. (author)
Other Authors: Baird, Donald J. (author), Calow, Peter (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 1000
Subjects:
Daphnia magna
Chronic bioassays
Genetic variation
Variability
Standardization
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10773/5263
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:ria.ua.pt:10773/5263

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http://hdl.handle.net/10773/5263

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