Laboratory cultivation experiments were carried out in order to determine the response of D.
galeata to food conditions and dissolved chemicals in the water collected in three …

MS is a set of defined media. It is comprised of inorganics, plus crystalline vitamin B 12 and,
usually, a glycylglycine buffer, which are dissolved in distilled-deionized water. Algal and …

Neonates of Daphnia magna are widely used for bioassays in aquatic toxicology. Although
this species is considered as a world‐wide reference, its low repeatability of the results in …

The continuous increase in the number of new chemicals as well as the discharges of solid
and liquid wastes potentially hazardous for the environment has in the past years triggered …

Laboratory cultivation experiments were carried out in order to determine the response of D.
galeata to food conditions and dissolved chemicals in the water collected in three …

Despite the widespread use of Daphnia magna as a test organism in bioassay studies, little
attention has been devoted to conditions necessary for culturing healthy animals in the …

The toxicity values heavy metals were evaluated by immobilization and chronic reproduction
impairment tests, using Daphnia magna. Acute tests were evaluated by the inhibition of their …

As EC validity criteria for the production of Daphnia magna neonates in standard toxicity
tests set fecundity minima which must be attained, it is important that culture conditions …

Bioassays and biological tools have been developed for the evaluation of the toxicity of
water. A protocol of short-term tests allowed the examination of the influence of temperature …