Chironomus tentans

Muir DCG, Townsend BE, Lockhart WL. 1983b. Bioavailability of six organic chemicals to Chironomus tentans larvae in sediment and water. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 2 269-282. 

Abnormal movement patterns of larvae of the midge Chironomus tentans at 100 pg/L in 48 h (Catalan 1982)... 

Catalan, Z.B. 1982. Behavioral responses of Chironomus tentans to stress as determined by an optical fiber monitoring system. Ph.D. thesis, Univ. Michigan, Ann Arbor. 94 pp. 

Chironomid, Chironomus tentans larvae 2.7 mg/L for 48 h Aquatic insects, 5 species LC50 31... 

Oladimeji, A.A. and B.A. Offem. 1989. Toxicity of lead to Clarias lazera, Oreochromis niloticus, Chironomus tentans and Benacus sp. Water Air Soil Pollut. 44 191-201. 

Call, D.J., C.N. Polkinghome, T.P. Markee, L.T. Brooke, D.L. Geiger, J.W. Gorsuch, and K.A. Robillard. 1999. Silver toxicity to Chironomus tentans in two freshwater sediments. Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 18 30-39. 

Midge, Chironomus tentans, fourth-instar larvae 0.015-0.93 pg/L exposed for 24 h in Normal burrowing behavior 8... 

Environment Canada (1997) Test for survival and growth in sediment using larvae of the freshwater midges (Chironomus tentans or Chironomus riparius). Report No. EPS/l/RM/32, Environment Canada, Ottawa... 

A strong link between the phosphorylation of nucleolin, its proteolysis and the production of ribosomal RNA has been observed (Bouche et al, 1984 Bourbon et al, 1983 Warrener and Petryshyn, 1991). The inhibition of proteolysis using leupeptin leads to a lower rRNA transcription in an in vitro transcription system (Bouche et al, 1984). In another series of experiments, the injection of nucleolin antiserum leads to 2-3.5 fold stimulation of pre-rRNA synthesis in Chironomus tentans salivary glands (Egyhazi et al, 1988), although it was not clearly demonstrated that these antibodies blocked specifically the homolog of nucleolin in this species. A model was proposed based on these observations where nucleolin was... 

LC50 (10-d) for amphipod Hyalella azteca) 18.4 mg/L, midge Chironomus tentans) 3.3 mg/L, Juvenile fathead minnows 27.1 mg/L (Nebeker and Schuytema, 1998). 

NOEL (10-d) for midge Chironomus tentans) 1.9 and 3.4 mg/L, juvenile fathead minnows <3.4... 

Lamb, M.M. and Daneholt, B. (1979) Characterization of active transcription units in Balbiani rings of Chironomus tentans. Cell. 17(4), 835-848. 

Muir, D.C.G., G.R Rawn, B.E. Townsend, W.L. Lockhart, and R. Greenhalgh. 1985. Bioconcentration of cypermethrin, deltametbrin, fenvalerate and permetbrin by Chironomus tentans larvae in sediment and water. Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 4 51-61. 

Dodge, E.E. and Theis,T.L., 1979. Effect of chemical speciation on the uptake of copper by Chironomus tentans. Environ. Sci. Technol., 13 1287-1288. 

Dad, N.K. and P.S. Tripathi (1980). Acute toxicity of herbicides to freshwater fish and midge larvae. Chironomus tentans Environ. Int., 4 435 137. 

Barber, T.R., Fuchsman, P.C., Chappie, D.J., Sferra, J.C., Newton, F.C. and Sheehan, P.J. (1997) Toxicity of hexachlorobenzene to Hyallela azteca and Chironomus tentans in spiked sediment bioassays, Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 16 (8), 1716-1720. 

Becker, D.S., Rose, C.D. and Bigham, G.N. (1995) Comparison of the 10-day freshwater sediment toxicity tests using Hyallela azteca and Chironomus tentans, Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 14 (12), 2089-2094. 

Benoit, D.A., Sibley, P.K., Juenemann, J.L. and Ankley, G.T. (1997) Chironomus tentans life-cycle test design and evaluation for use in assessing toxicity of contaminated sediments, Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 16 (6), 1165-1176. 

Besser, J.M., Kubitz, J.A., Ingersoll, C.G., Braselton, W.E. and Giesy, J.P. (1995) Influences on copper bioaccumulation, growth, and survival of the midge, Chironomus tentans, in metal contaminated sediments, Journal of Aquatic Ecosystem Health 4 (3), 157-168. 

Call, D.J., Liber, K., Whiteman, F.W., Dawson, T.D. and Brooke, L.T. (1999) Observations on the 10-day Chironomus tentans survival and growth bioassay in evaluating Great Lakes sediments, Journal of the Great Lakes Research 25, 171-178. 

Fuchsman, PC., Barber, T.R. and Sheehan, P.J. (1998) Sediment toxicity evaluation for hexachlorobenzene spiked sediment tests with Leptocheirus plumulosus, Hyalella azteca, and Chironomus tentans, Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 35 (4), 573-579. 

Harrahy, E.A. and Clements, W.H. (1997) Toxocity and bioaccumulation of a mixture of heavy metals in Chironomus tentans (Diptera Chironomidae) in synthetic sediment, Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 16 (2), 317-327. 

Lacey, R., Watzin, M.C. and McIntosh, A.W. (1999) Sediment organic matter content as a confounding factor in toxicity tests with Chironomus tentans, Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 18 (2), 231-236. 

Nebeker, A.V., Onjukka, S.T. and Caims, M.A. (1988) Chronic effects of contaminated sediment on Daphnia magna and Chironomus tentans, Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 41, 574-581. 

Sae-Ma, B., Meier, P.G. and Landrum, P.F. (1998) Effect of extended storage time on the toxicity of sediment-associated cadmium on midge larvae Chironomus tentans), Ecotoxicology 7 (3), 133-139. Sakai, M. (2001) Chronic toxicity tests with Daphnia magna for examination of river water quality,... 

Suedel, B.C. and Rodgers Jr, J.H. (1996) Toxicity of fluoranthene to Daphnia magna, Hyalella azteca, Chironomus tentans, and Stylaria lacustris in water-only and whole sediment exposures, Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 57 (1), 132-138. 

Watts, M.M. and Pascoe, D. (2000) Comparison of Chironomus riparius Meigen and Chironomus tentans Fabricius (Diptera Chironomidae) for assessing the toxicity of sediments, Environmental Toxicology... 

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