Comparison of the reproductive and embyro-larval effects of commercial and extracted naphthenic acid mixtures in Fathead minnow (Pimephales promelas)

• Main Author: Mahaffey, Ashley
• Other Authors: de Boer, Dirk, Headley, John, Aitken, Alec
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: University of Saskatchewan 2019
• Subjects: OSPW; naphthenic acids; commercial mixture; extracted mixture; fathead minnow; reproduction; embyro-larval development; Athabasca River; Fluka; Minnows
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10388/12223

To improve monitoring efforts and establish a guideline that is relevant to oil sands naphthenic acids, more information is needed to understand the composition of naphthenic acid components in raw OSPW and their role in determining toxicity. Commercial naphthenic acids have been used as a toxicolog...