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Acute toxicity of PCB congeners toDaphnia magna andPimephales promelas

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  1. Environmental Laboratory, U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, 3909 Halls Ferry Road, 39180-6199, Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA

    T. M. Dillon

  2. Graduate Program in Ecology, The University of Tennessee, 37996-1610, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA

    W. D. S. Burton

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Dillon, T.M., Burton, W.D.S. Acute toxicity of PCB congeners toDaphnia magna andPimephales promelas . Bull. Environ. Contam. Toxicol. 46, 208–215 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01691939

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