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Behavioral avoidance and selection responses of fishes to chemicals

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Residue Reviews

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Standard chemical lethality tests are performed to determine the concentration at which a particular chemical produces death in a species under a defined set of laboratory conditions. Although these tests are necessary, it is difficult to relate these data to natural environments where fate and effect predictions are needed. First, chemical pollutants seldom attain lethal concentrations in nature; hence effects, when present, usually are sublethal. Second, even if a potentially lethal concentration is present, resident species can make several adaptive responses (i. e., responses which promote survival). For convenience, these responses can be separated into behavioral, physiological/biochemical, and genetic, although these categories are not necessarily mutually exclusive.

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  1. Department of Biological Sciences and Institute of Applied Sciences, North Texas State University, Denton, TX, 76203, USA

    Thomas L. Beitinger & Leslie Freeman

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  1. Department of Entomology, University of California, Riverside, 92521, California, USA

    Francis A. Gunther

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    Jane Davies Gunther

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Beitinger, T.L., Freeman, L. (1983). Behavioral avoidance and selection responses of fishes to chemicals. In: Gunther, F.A., Gunther, J.D. (eds) Residue Reviews. Residue Reviews, vol 90. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5606-9_2

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