Journal article
Cadmium transport by the gut and Malpighian tubules of Chironomus riparius
Abstract
Many aquatic insects are very insensitive to cadmium in short-term laboratory studies. LC50 values for larvae of the midge Chironomus riparius are over 25,000 times the Criterion Maximum Concentration in the United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA (2000)) species sensitivity distribution (SSD). Excretion or sequestration of cadmium may contribute to insensitivity and we have therefore examined cadmium transport by isolated guts …
Authors
Leonard EM; Pierce LM; Gillis PL; Wood CM; O’Donnell MJ
Journal
Aquatic Toxicology, Vol. 92, No. 3, pp. 179–186
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
May 5, 2009
DOI
10.1016/j.aquatox.2009.01.011
ISSN
0166-445X