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The World of Protozoa, Rotifera, Nematoda and Oligochaeta

Ilyodrilus templetoni

[ref. ID; 4473]

Test system

Bioavailability

Strains

From the Waterways Experiment Station (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Vicksburg, MS, USA), wet weight 2.73+/-0.91 mg.

Toxicants

Phenanthrene

Temperature

25 degrees C

Test design/concentration

50-ml polypropylene centrifuge tubes (50 g wet sediment (from Bayou Manchac, a freshwater bayou in Baton Rouge (LA, USA) + 10 ml artificial pond water (0.5 mM NaCl, 0.2 mM NaHCO3, 0.05 mM KCl, 0.4 mM CaCl2).

Measurements/observations

Lipid content, phenanthrene tissue content.

Evaluations

Biota-sediment accumulation factor (BSAF).

[ref. ID; 4569]

Test system

Bioavailability, Assimilation efficiency, Elimination, Biotransformation

Strain

From the Waterways Experiment Station (U.S. Corps of Engineers, Vicksburg, MS, USA).

Toxicants

Benzo[a]pyrene

Test design

Sediment (from a local source, Bayou Manchac (LA, USA).

Measurements

BaP concentration.

Evaluations

Biota-sediment accumulation factor (BSAF).

[ref. ID; 4990]

Test system

The primary uptake route of two PAH

Toxicants

Phenanthrene, Benzo[a]pyrene

Test design/concentrations

Measurements/observations

Sediment ingestion rate, assimilation efficiencies, elimination rate, tissue concentration.

Evaluations

Bioenergetic-based toxicokinetic model.