Earthworms for Monitoring Metal Contamination, Paperback by Plytycz, Barbara;...

by Barbara Plytycz, Azwady Nor Aziz, Joanna Homa, Peter Kille, László Molnár

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Earthworms for Monitoring Metal Contamination, Paperback by Plytycz, Barbara; Homa, Joanna; Aziz, Azwady; Molnar, Laszlo; Kille, Peter, ISBN 1606923803, ISBN-13 9781606923801, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Earthworms are widely used to assess the bio-availability and deleterious effects of metals in contaminated soils, and the team of six scientists from Jagiellonian University in Poland and Cardiff University in Wales describe some of the direct and indirect methods that have recently been used to determine the ligand-binding speciation and the extent of the toxicologically important bio-reactive metal and metalloid fractions in the cells of earthworms as receptor organisms. They consider cellular biomarkers in general; metal relationships, morphological plasticity, and metabionomics in earthworm chloragocytes; morphology, composition, immuno-competence and soil quality in coelomocytes; and earthworm genomics. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()

• Publisher: NOVA Science Publishers, Incorporated
• Year: 2008
• Binding: Paperback
• ISBN: 9781606923801
• Condition: Fine

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