title: Application of an artificial sea salt solution to determine acute toxicity of herbicides to Proisotoma minuta (Collembola).
abstract: The acute toxicity test is described in this experiment where the Collembola species Proisotoma minuta was exposed to herbicides in an artificial sea salt solution for seven days. The salt solution did not prohibit the insects' reproduction system. The seven day LD50 values for trifluralin, pendimethalin, metolachlor, prometryn, paraquat, atrazine, fluometuron, and diuron were 3.48, 10.4, 12.4, 13.0, 23.1, 33.4, 250, and 711 mg L(-1), respectively. A good correlation between toxicity of the compounds and their lipophilicity and vapor pressure was recorded in this study.
authors.affiliation: Department of Entomology, One Shields Ave., University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA. ekpark@ucdavis.edu
authors.forename: Eun-Kee
authors.initials: EK
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: Edith M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Lees
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D005260:Female; D006540:Herbicides / Q000633:toxicity*; D007313:Insecta / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000502:physiology; D007928:Lethal Dose 50; D008297:Male; D010058:Oviposition / Q000187:drug effects; D012098:Reproduction / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D012965:Sodium Chloride / Q000633:toxicity*; D012989:Soil Pollutants / Q000633:toxicity*; D012996:Solutions; D023382:Toxicity Tests, Acute
chemical_list: D006540:Herbicides; D012989:Soil Pollutants; D012996:Solutions; D012965:Sodium Chloride