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Overview

Michael J. Lydy is affiliated with Southern Illinois University Carbondale in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of environmental science, with a particular emphasis on environmental toxicology and ecotoxicology. Their scientific work covers a broad range of interconnected topics and subfields that focus on the effects and interactions of chemicals and pollutants in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems.

The main fields of study associated with Michael J. Lydy include:

  • Environmental Science

The subfields of study represented in their publications comprise:

  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Ecology
  • Pollution
  • Molecular Biology
  • Plant Science

Prominent research topics in their body of work consist of:

  • Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology
  • Pesticide and Herbicide Environmental Studies
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Insect Resistance and Genetics
  • Pesticide Exposure and Toxicity
  • Insect and Pesticide Research
  • Parasite Biology and Host Interactions

Among their more recent publications are:

  • "Ex situ determination of freely dissolved concentrations of hydrophobic organic chemicals in sediments and soils: basis for interpreting toxicity and assessing bioavailability, risks and remediation necessity," 2020, Nature Protocols
  • "Analysis of RNA Interference (RNAi) Biopesticides: Double-Stranded RNA (dsRNA) Extraction from Agricultural Soils and Quantification by RT-qPCR," 2020, Environmental Science & Technology
  • "Trophic transfer, bioaccumulation and transcriptomic effects of permethrin in inland silversides, Menidia beryllina, under future climate scenarios," 2021, Environmental Pollution
  • "Dietary exposure to environmentally relevant pesticide mixtures impairs swimming performance and lipid homeostatic gene expression in Juvenile Chinook salmon at elevated water temperatures," 2022, Environmental Pollution
  • "Transcriptomic and Histopathological Effects of Bifenthrin to the Brain of Juvenile Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)," 2021, Toxics

The scientist has published frequently in the following venues:

  • Environmental Pollution
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology
  • Ecotoxicology
  • Chemosphere

Michael J. Lydy collaborates often with several researchers, including:

  • Kara E. Huff Hartz
  • Richard E. Connon
  • Neil Fuller
  • Jason T. Magnuson
  • Gregory W. Whitledge

Best Publications

  • Toxicity of fluoroquinolone antibiotics to aquatic organisms

    April A. Robinson;Jason B. Belden;Michael J. Lydy

  • How Well Can We Predict the Toxicity of Pesticide Mixtures to Aquatic Life

    Jason B Belden;Robert J Gilliom;Michael J Lydy

  • Toxicokinetics in aquatic systems: Model comparisons and use in hazard assessment

    Peter F. Landrum;Michael J. Lydy;Henry Lee

  • Aquatic Toxicity Due to Residential Use of Pyrethroid Insecticides

    D P Weston;R W Holmes;J You;M J Lydy

  • Distribution and toxicity of sediment-associated pesticides in agriculture-dominated water bodies of California's Central Valley.

    D P Weston;J You;M J Lydy

  • Pyrethroid insecticides and sediment toxicity in urban creeks from California and Tennessee.

    Erin L Amweg;Donald P Weston;Jing You;Michael J Lydy

  • Global occurrence of pyrethroid insecticides in sediment and the associated toxicological effects on benthic invertebrates: An overview.

    Huizhen Li;Fei Cheng;Yanli Wei;Michael J. Lydy

  • Residential runoff as a source of pyrethroid pesticides to urban creeks.

    D.P. Weston;R.W. Holmes;M.J. Lydy

  • Urban and Agricultural Sources of Pyrethroid Insecticides to the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta of California

    Donald P. Weston;Michael J. Lydy

  • Synergistic toxicity of atrazine and organophosphate insecticides contravenes the response addition mixture model

    Pamela A. Pape-Lindstrom;Michael J. Lydy

  • Impact of atrazine on organophosphate insecticide toxicity.

    Jason B. Belden;Michael J. Lydy

  • Challenges in regulating pesticide mixtures

    Michael Lydy;Jason Belden;Craig Wheelock;Bruce Hammock

  • Temperature as a toxicity identification evaluation tool for pyrethroid insecticides: toxicokinetic confirmation

    Amanda D. Harwood;Jing You;Michael J. Lydy

  • Toxicity of the Insecticide Fipronil and Its Degradates to Benthic Macroinvertebrates of Urban Streams

    Donald P. Weston;Michael J. Lydy

  • Occurrence and potential toxicity of pyrethroids and other insecticides in bed sediments of urban streams in central Texas.

    Emily P. Hintzen;Michael J. Lydy;Jason B. Belden

  • Multiple origins of pyrethroid insecticide resistance across the species complex of a nontarget aquatic crustacean, Hyalella azteca

    Donald P. Weston;Helen C. Poynton;Gary A. Wellborn;Michael J. Lydy

  • Comparison of chemical approaches for assessing bioavailability of sediment-associated contaminants.

    Jing You;Peter F. Landrum;Michael J. Lydy

  • Increased toxicity to invertebrates associated with a mixture of atrazine and organophosphate insecticides.

    Troy D. Anderson;Michael J. Lydy;Michael J. Lydy

  • FACTORS AFFECTING THE FATE OF CIPROFLOXACIN IN AQUATIC FIELD SYSTEMS

    L. A. Cardoza;C. W. Knapp;C. K. Larive;J. B. Belden

  • Distribution and toxicity of sediment-associated pesticides in urban and agricultural waterways from Illinois, USA.

    Yuping Ding;Amanda D. Harwood;Heather M. Foslund;Michael J. Lydy

Frequent Co-Authors

Jing You
Jing You Jinan University
Donald P. Weston
Donald P. Weston University of California, Berkeley
Peter F. Landrum
Peter F. Landrum Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Jussi V. K. Kukkonen
Jussi V. K. Kukkonen University of Eastern Finland
Richard E. Connon
Richard E. Connon University of California, Davis
Daniel Schlenk
Daniel Schlenk University of California, Riverside
Keith A. Maruya
Keith A. Maruya Southern California Coastal Water Research Project
Robert M. Burgess
Robert M. Burgess Environmental Protection Agency
Upal Ghosh
Upal Ghosh University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Rainer Lohmann
Rainer Lohmann University of Rhode Island

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