The possibility of the bottled natural mineral waters use as a media for keeping of the highly
sensitive test-culture of Daphnia magna Straus as alternative to the synthetic medium has …

The purpose of this work was to experimentally determine conditional reference
demographic indicators of laboratory populations of Daphnia magna Straus (1820). These …

The waterflea Daphnia magna is a part of the active swimming plankton of certain
ecosystems and sometimes appears in big numbers in lakes or little streams. As a filter …

The suitability of various synthetic media for the culture of Daphnia magna was tested.
Daphnids cultured in a standard medium for toxicity testing proposed by ISO showed low …

MATERIALS AND METHODS In this study, five mineral waters were examined. Their springs
are located in five different Italian regions and will be referred herein as: PA (Toscana), LE …

MATERIALS AND METHODS Six experiments, were carried out in which the survival and
reproductive performance of D. magna was compared in different types of culture media …

Insufficient attention to the standardization of conditions for test organisms can lead to a
distortion of bioassay results by changing the characteristics of the culture. The present …

One of the main aspects of aquatic toxicology is the determination of toxic compounds on
organisms that play a significant role in aquatic communities. Cladocerans are suitable as …

Daphnia is a freshwater microcrustacean that integrates the zooplankton. Different species
are cultivated in the laboratory and used as model organisms in several areas of research …

Along with the global industrialization, the problem of pollution has spread, especially the
water pollution. Pollutants in many types (chemical, physical, radio-active or pathogenic …