Cambarus bartoni

Crayfish, Cambarus bartoni, copper-tolerant strain exposed to 19 (controls), 125, 250, or 500 gg/L for 4 weeks concentrations in controls (mg/kg DW) vs. all experimental groups (mg/kg DW) ... 

Mwangi, S.M. and M.A. Alikhan. 1993. Cadmium and nickel uptake by tissues of Cambarus bartoni (Ast-acidae, Decapoda, Crustacea) effects on copper and zinc stores. Water Res. 27 921-927. 

Zia, S. and M.A. Alikhan. 1989. A laboratory study of the copper and nickel uptake and regulation in a copper-tolerant decapod, Cambarus bartoni (Fabricus) (Decapoda, Crustaceana). Arch. Inter. Physiol. Biochimie 97 211-219. 

Nickel concentrations are comparatively elevated in aquatic plants and animals in the vicinity of nickel smelters, nickel-cadmium battery plants, electroplating plants, sewage outfalls, coal ash disposal basins, and heavily populated areas. For example, at Sudbury, Ontario, mean nickel concentrations, in mg/kg DW, were 22.0 in larvae of aquatic insects, 25.0 in zooplankton, and 290.0 in aquatic weeds maximum concentrations reported were 921.0 mg/kg DW in gut of crayfish (Cambarus bartoni) and... 

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