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Bio-indicateur de la toxicité potentielle de milieux aqueux: bio-essai "développement embryo-larvaire de bivalve"
Quiniou, F.; Delesmont, R.; Caisey, X. (2005). Bio-indicateur de la toxicité potentielle de milieux aqueux: bio-essai "développement embryo-larvaire de bivalve". Méthodes d'analyse en milieu marin. Editions IFREMER: Plouzané. 24 pp.
Part of: Méthodes d'analyse en milieu marin. Editions IFREMER: Plouzané. ISSN 1637-1844, more

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Keywords
    Tests > Bioassays
    Bivalvia [WoRMS]
    Marine/Coastal

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  • Quiniou, F.
  • Delesmont, R.
  • Caisey, X.

Abstract
    Assessing the quality of a marine environment subjected to numerous discharges or substances from human activities and fixing regulations to authorise discharges at sea require bio-monitoring tools. Part of the series on "Méthodes d'analyse en milieu marin" (analytical methods in the marine environment), this fascicule describes a test protocol using embryo-larval development in bivalves as a tool to assess the potential toxicity of a substance or an aqueous medium. The acute toxicity bio-assay (24 h for cupped oysters and 48 h for mussels) can be applied at salinities ranging from 20 to 35 and make it possible to determine the concentrations inducing abnormal embryo-larval development. This bioassay will be useful for both environmental managers and researchers involved in marine environment bio-monitoring.

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