Light avoidance in Baikalian amphipods as a test response to toxicants

The dependence between the time of escape of Eulimnogammarus vittatus from light and toxicants in the medium has been studied. It has been shown that these amphipods display the most rapid response to light in pure Baikal water. Toxicants slow down the movement of E. vittatus in the dark. A similar...

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Published inContemporary problems of ecology Vol. 10; no. 1; pp. 77 - 83
Main Authors Stom, D. I., Zhdanova, G. O., Saksonov, M. N., Balayan, A. E., Tolstoy, M. Yu
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Moscow Pleiades Publishing 2017
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Bioassays
Biomedical and Life Sciences
Detergents
Ecology
Eulimnogammarus
Heavy metals
Life Sciences
Petroleum products
Toxicants
Toxicity
toxicity
bioassay
phototaxis
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Summary:The dependence between the time of escape of Eulimnogammarus vittatus from light and toxicants in the medium has been studied. It has been shown that these amphipods display the most rapid response to light in pure Baikal water. Toxicants slow down the movement of E. vittatus in the dark. A similar effect has been observed during the experiments with heavy metals, detergents, and petroleum products. The results indicate a good prospect for using this reaction as a test response during the biological assay of toxic contamination with the help of E. vittatus .
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ISSN:1995-4255
1995-4263
DOI:10.1134/S1995425517010115