Article
Molecular and genetic ecotoxicologic approaches to aquatic environmental bioreporting.
Environmental health perspectives - 1 Dec 1998
Beaty B J, Black W C, Carlson J O, Clements W H, DuTeau N, Harrahy E, Nuckols J, Kenneth E, Olson K E, Rayms-Keller A
Abstract excerpt
Molecular and population genetic ecotoxicologic approaches are being developed for the utilization of arthropods as bioreporters of heavy metal mixtures in the environment. The explosion of knowledge in molecular biology, molecular genetics, and biotechnology provides an unparalleled opportunity...
Topics
- Aedes
- Animals
- Arthropods
- Biomarkers
- Chironomidae
- DNA
- Environmental Monitoring
- Genetic Variation
- Genomic Library
- Luciferases
- Molecular Biology
- Plasmids
- Polymorphism, Single-Stranded Conformational
- Population
- Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction