Identification of Insecticides and Acaricides by Comparative Bioassay
Abstract
Toxicants in purified form can be identified by applying a base dose, consisting of the amount causing 50-percent mortality in one organism, to other susceptible organisms. This yields a mortality pattern which "fingerprints" the compound. Toxicants related by chemical structure or biological activity tend to possess similar mortality patterns.
- Publication:
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Science
- Pub Date:
- May 1960
- DOI:
- 10.1126/science.131.3410.1369
- Bibcode:
- 1960Sci...131.1369H