Sublethal Toxicity Endpoints of Heavy Metals to the Nematode Caenorhabditis elegans.

Caenorhabditis elegans, a free-living nematode, is commonly used as a model organism in ecotoxicological studies. The current literatures have provided useful insight into the relative sensitivity of several endpoints, but few direct comparisons of multiple endpoints under a common set of experiment...

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Main Authors: Ying Jiang, Jiandong Chen, Yue Wu, Qiang Wang, Huixin Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4732754?pdf=render