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Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology
|January 1, 1979
Abstract:
The copper tolerance of paramecium tetraurelia decreases with increased temperatures over the range of 12 C to 34 C. The relationship is linear and the correlation = - 0.98. The regression equation has an intercept of 16 micro M Cu++ at O C, and tolerance is reduced by 0.33 micro M for each degree increase in temperature.
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