| Title : Evaluation of the Toxicity, AChE Activity and DNA Damage Caused by Imidacloprid on Earthworms, Eisenia fetida - Wang_2015_Bull.Environ.Contam.Toxicol_95_475 |
| Author(s) : Wang K , Qi S , Mu X , Chai T , Yang Y , Wang D , Li D , Che W , Wang C |
| Ref : Bulletin of Environmental Contamination & Toxicology , 95 :475 , 2015 |
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Abstract :
Imidacloprid is a well-known pesticide and it is timely to evaluate its toxicity to earthworms (Eisenia fetida). In the present study, the effect of imidacloprid on reproduction, growth, acetylcholinesterase (AChE) and DNA damage in earthworms was assessed using an artificial soil medium. The median lethal concentration (LC50) and the median number of hatched cocoons (EC50) of imidacloprid to earthworms was 3.05 and 0.92 mg/kg respectively, the lowest observed effect concentration of imidacloprid about hatchability, growth, AChE activity and DNA damage was 0.02, 0.5, 0.1 and 0.5 mg/kg, respectively. |
| PubMedSearch : Wang_2015_Bull.Environ.Contam.Toxicol_95_475 |
| PubMedID: 26293707 |
Wang K, Qi S, Mu X, Chai T, Yang Y, Wang D, Li D, Che W, Wang C (2015)
Evaluation of the Toxicity, AChE Activity and DNA Damage Caused by Imidacloprid on Earthworms, Eisenia fetida
Bulletin of Environmental Contamination & Toxicology
95 :475
Wang K, Qi S, Mu X, Chai T, Yang Y, Wang D, Li D, Che W, Wang C (2015)
Bulletin of Environmental Contamination & Toxicology
95 :475