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 …

The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of two types of natural water and one
processed water on the reproductive success of Daphnia magna. It was also of interest to …