Demographic responses of Daphnia magna fed transgenic Bt-maize
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Demographic responses of Daphnia magna fed transgenic Bt-maize
The food/feed quality of a variety of genetically modified (GM) maize expressing Cry1Ab Bt-toxin was tested over the life-cycle of Daphnia magna, an arthropod commonly used as model organism in ecotoxicological studies. Demographic responses were compared between animals fed GM or unmodified (UM) near isogenic maize, with and without the addition of predator smell. Age-specific data on survival...
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عنوان ژورنال: Ecotoxicology
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0963-9292,1573-3017
DOI: 10.1007/s10646-009-0427-x