Test species have been selected mostly for ease of culture, ecological relevance and, occasionally, economic importance.
Test species and reference species were labelled using the BioPrime® Plus Array CGH Indirect Genomic Labeling kit (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA).
They are, as Roopnarine likes to put it, "natural experiments" that test species' ability to survive.
Recommended No field-collected test species.
Only Schneider et al. [13] has a "must" criterion: identification of the test species.
aSome aspects are not relevant for all studies, depending on choice of test species.
OECD guidelines Evidence that controls met the overall survival acceptability standard of the test species.
The amphipod Hyalella azteca was selected as a surrogate test species for functionally important groundwater crustaceans.
The test species demonstrated varying sensitivity to soils from both biopiles.
Identification of test species, number of individuals, investigated period of the lifecycle, reproductive condition, sex, strain, source, body weight, length or mass are aspects related to the "test species" that the four evaluation methods all together as consider important.
Lethal concentration in 50%% of test species (LC50) and effect concentration in 50%% of test species (EC50) values for PSOA ranged from 0.75 to 5.44 mg/L, representing a relatively small range spanning less than an order of magnitude.
