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Diatoms in Ecotoxicology

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Encyclopedia of Aquatic Ecotoxicology

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Apoptosis:

Programmed cell death.

Benthic microalgae:

Microalgae living in river, lake, and/or ocean bottoms.

Bioindicators:

Species or group of species whose presence and/or absence can be used to determine the integrity of an ecosystem.

Biological index:

A biomonitoring tool using a mathematical model to estimate water quality from the ecological preferenda of different bioindicator species.

Genotoxicity:

Toxicity that affects the integrity of cellular genetic material.

Oxidative stress:

Cellular process resulting from an imbalance between burst production of reactive oxygen species and antioxidative mechanisms.

Planktonic microalgae:

Microalgae floating or drifting in fresh and salt water.

Reactive oxygen species:

Highly reactive molecules produced by the normal metabolism of oxygen and used in numerous cell processes such as cell signaling, phagocytosis, and oxidative stress.

Simplified food chains:

Experimental food chains with a reduced number of organisms that are...

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    Timothée Debenest

  2. Université de Toulouse, INP-ENSAT, UMR 5245 CNRS-INP-UPS, EcoLab (Laboratoire d’écologie fonctionnelle), Avenue de l’Agrobiopôle, 31326, Castanet-Tolosan, France

    Jérôme Silvestre & Eric Pinelli

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Debenest, T., Silvestre, J., Pinelli, E. (2013). Diatoms in Ecotoxicology. In: Férard, JF., Blaise, C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Aquatic Ecotoxicology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5704-2_29

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