Comparison between four and seven-day Ceriodaphnia dubia survival and reproduction test protocols using oil refinery effluent samples

The aim of this study was to compare the 7-day Ceriodaphnia dubia survival and reproduction test with a 4 day test to evaluate the toxicity of oil refinery effluents. Both shown identical NOECs with three of 6 tested samples. With one of the tested samples, the 4-day NOEC was one tested-concentratio...

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Main Authors: Eduardo Cyrino Oliveira-Filho, Anndressa Camillo Da-Matta, Lucianna Lopes Cabral, Letícia Falcão Veiga, Francisco José Roma Paumgartten
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto de Tecnologia do Paraná (Tecpar) 2008-02-01
Series:Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-89132008000100017