Research Article

Oversimplification and Overstandardization in Biological Methods: Sperm Bioassays in Ecotoxicology as a Case of Study and a Proposal for Their Reformulation

Figure 2

Fertilization ratio as a function of gamete concentrations in Paracentrotus lividus ((2) with the central parametric values from Figure 1) at 2 (a) and 10 minutes (b). (c) Values along the diagonal of the plane in (a) and (b) , illustrating the effect of the absolute gamete population for a single / ratio.
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