Algae Selenastrum capricornutum

Ward TJ, Kowalski PL, Boeri RL (1995a) Acute toxicity of the water accommodated fraction (WAF) of aikyitin MA to the freshwater alga, Selenastrum capricornutum. Marblehead, MA, T.R. Wilbury Laboratories, Inc. (Study No. 865-MO). 

Herman, D.C., Mayfield, C.L, Innis, W.E. (1991) The relationship between toxicity and bioconcentration of volatile aromatic hydrocarbons by the alga selenastrum capricornutum. Chemosphere 22(7), 665-676. 

Errecalde, O., Seidl, M. and Campbell, P. G. C. (1998). Influence of a low molecular weight metabolite (citrate) on the toxicity of cadmium and zinc to the unicellular green alga Selenastrum capricornutum an exception to the free-ion model, Water Res., 32, 419 -29. 

The experimental results and the procedure used in determining the TU of the eighth PAH compound (i.e., TU8) that would induce 50% growth inhibition for the fresh water alga Selenastrum capricornutum are detailed in Fig. 12 for only a single test on the eighth component PAH mixture (i.e., 8-C1, see Table 9 for the mixture composition). 

I. 07 (sheepshead minnow), 1.50 (American oyster), 1.22 (brown shrimp) (Wofford etal., 1981) 4.36 green alga, Selenastrum capricornutum (Casserly et ah, 1983)... 

Herman, D.C., Inniss, W.E., and Mayfield, C.I. Impact of volatile aromatic hydrocarbons, alone and in combination, on growth of the freshwater alga Selenastrum capricornutum, Aquat. Toxicol, 18(2) 87-100, 1990. 

Cody, T. E., Radike, M. J. Warshawsky, D. (1984). The phytotoxicity of benzo[a]pyrene in the green alga, Selenastrum capricornutum. Environmental Research, 35, 122-31. 

Lindquist, B. Warshawsky, D. (1985a). Identification of the 11,12-dihydroxybenzo[a]pyrene as a major metabolite produced by the green alga, Selenastrum capricornutum. Biochemistry and Biophysics Research Communications, 130, 71-5. 

Warshawsky, D., Radike, M., Jayasimhulu, K. Cody, T. (1988). Metabolism of benzo[a]pyrene by a dioxygenase system of the freshwater green alga Selenastrum capricornutum. Biochemistry and Biophysics Research Communications, 152, 540-4. 

Kamaya, Y., Kurogi, Y. and Suzuki, K. (2003) Acute toxicity of fatty acids to the freshwater green alga Selenastrum capricornutum, Environmental Toxicology 18 (5), 289-294. 

Nystrom, B. and Blanck, H. (1998) Effects of the sulfonylurea herbicide metsulfiiron methyl on growth and macromolecular synthesis in the green alga Selenastrum capricornutum, Aquatic Toxicology 43 (1), 25-39. 

Environment Canada (1992b) Biological test method growth inhibition test using the freshwater alga Selenastrum capricornutum, Environmental Protection Publications, Environment Canada, Ottawa, EPS Report l/RM/25, 41 pp. 

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