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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Bull Environ Contam Toxicol. 2011 Mar 15;86(4):373–378. doi: 10.1007/s00128-011-0236-9

Table 2.

List of earthworm species, enzyme assayed, and the correlation to malathion body burdens (Spearman’s r)

Species Enzyme Spearman’s r p value
Lumbricus terrestris AChE 0.376 0.3125
Lumbricus terrestris BChE 0.033 0.9484
Lumbricus terrestris CbE −0.450 0.2298
Eisenia foetida AChE −0.260 0.5364
Eisenia foetida BChE N/D N/D
Eisenia foetida CbE −0.370 0.3363

N/D- activities were too low to be reliably measured