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SUBMITTER: Stevenson LM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3781102 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
PloS one 20130923 9
The vast majority of nanotoxicity studies measures the effect of exposure to a toxicant on an organism and ignores the potentially important effects of the organism on the toxicant. We investigated the effect of citrate-coated silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) on populations of the freshwater alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii at different phases of batch culture growth and show that the AgNPs are most toxic to cultures in the early phases of growth. We offer strong evidence that reduced toxicity occurs ...[more]