Sublethal effects definition
Sublethal effects means changes or consequences experienced or demonstrated by organisms or populations that survive exposure to a toxicant, including biological, physiological, demographic, reproductive, developmental, genetic, or behavioral effects.
Sublethal effects means effects resulting in inadequate gonad development, gamete production and viability, spawning or growth.
Examples of Sublethal effects in a sentence
Sublethal effects might actually become lethal if there were a loss in ability to avoid predators resulting from the response to oils.
Sublethal effects were dose-dependent and included 25 fish on the bottom of the aquarium, dark coloration, hyperactivity, inactivity, labored respiration, 26 loss of equilibrium with lateral deviation, and/or lying on their sides or backs.
Sub-lethal effects appeared in the long-term fish studies on the same organs as in the acute study: Kidney, liver and gills were affected with dose-dependent histological effects.