Note to users. If you're seeing this message, it means that your browser cannot find this page's style/presentation instructions -- or possibly that you are using a browser that does not support current Web standards. Find out more about why this message is appearing, and what you can do to make your experience of our site the best it can be.

Science 6 May 1960:
Vol. 131. no. 3410, pp. 1369 - 1370
DOI: 10.1126/science.131.3410.1369
Prev | Table of Contents | Next

Articles

Identification of Insecticides and Acaricides by Comparative Bioassay

Robert F. Harwood 1 and Sutharm Areekul 1

1 Department of Entomology, Washington State University, Pullman

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.

To Advertise     Find Products

Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)