Table 1.

Parameters used for fitting of the straight lines to the experimental data showing the variation of the ratio percentage of the number density of cells in CS (ξ) of Mystus tengara with increasing ZnS nanoparticle concentration (σ) for a fixed exposure time (t = 60 days) keeping nanoparticle size (d) as a parameter and the correlation coefficients between ξ and σ for a fixed d.

Nanoparticle size (d) (nm)	A (L/μg)	B (%)	R 2	Pearson correlation coefficient (r)
3	−0.081	86	0.989	−0.996
7	−0.082	97.974	0.984	−0.994
12	−0.063	94.925	0.972	−0.989
20	−0.044	91.458	0.992	−0.979