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Effects of simultaneous short-term (7.5 to 60 min) thermal stress (24° to 34°C) and total residual chlorination (0.05 to 1.0 mg l-1) on specific development stages of the mummichog Fundulus heteroclitus (Pisces: Cyprinodontidae), were investigated. For the embryonic stages, the total number of successfully hatched larvae was used as the criterion to measure effect. For the larval stages, survival 24 h after exposure was used. In the embryonic stages, temperature was the most important main variable. Only one embryonic stage (gastrula) was confounded by second-order interactions (temperature x duration of exposure x total residual chlorination). Both 0-day and 7-day-old larval stages showed significant higher-order interactions for all combinations of test parameters, suggesting the presence of synergistic effects of the three main experimental variables.
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Communicated by J.M. Lawrence, Tampa
Contribution No. 308 to the Gulf Breeze Environmental Research Laboratory. Contribution No. 183 to the Belle W. Baruch Institute for Marine Biology and Coastal Research.
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Middaugh, D.P., Dean, J.M., Domey, R.G. et al. Effect of thermal stress and total residual chlorination on early life stages of the mummichog Fundulus heteroclitus . Mar. Biol. 46, 1–8 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00393813
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