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Variation in toxicity of a current-use insecticide among resurrected Daphnia pulicaria genotypes.
Ecotoxicology (London, England) - 1 Apr 2015
Simpson Adam M, Jeyasingh Punidan D, Belden Jason B
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This study examined how genotypes of Daphnia pulicaria from a single population, separated by thousands of generations of evolution in the wild, differ in their sensitivity to a novel anthropogenic stressor. These genotypes were resurrected from preserved resting eggs isolated from sediments belonging to three time periods: 2002-2008, 1967-1977, and 1301-1646 A.D. Toxicity of the organophosphate insecticide...
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