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Assessing Different Mechanisms of Toxicity in Mountaintop Removal/Valley Fill Coal Mining-Affected Watershed Samples Using Caenorhabditis elegans

Mountaintop removal-valley fill coal mining has been associated with a variety of impacts on ecosystem and human health, in particular reductions in the biodiversity of receiving streams. However, effluents emerging from valley fills contain a complex mixture of chemicals including metals, metalloid...

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Autores principales: Turner, Elena A., Kroeger, Gretchen L., Arnold, Mariah C., Thornton, B. Lila, Di Giulio, Richard T., Meyer, Joel N.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3774817/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24066176
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0075329