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The use of experimental systems, sensitive to environmental levels of pollutants provide an important alternative to biomonitoring studies, in particular, those involving whole, in vivo systems from which the fraction of organisms showing a particular change in relation with some causal factor, can be identified. Whether in some of the organisms this response is showed earlier than in the rest of the population exposed, it could be an alert that should to be attended to avoid more organisms being affected.
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Ramos-Morales, P. et al. (2001). Drosophila is a Reliable Biomonitor of Water Pollution. In: Butterworth, F.M., Gunatilaka, A., Gonsebatt, M.E. (eds) Biomonitors and Biomarkers as Indicators of Environmental Change 2. Environmental Science Research, vol 56. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1305-6_15
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