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Macek and Sleight (1977) found that exposure of critical life-stages of fish to toxicants provides estimates of chronically safe concentrations remarkably similar to those derived from full life-cycle toxicity tests.
He proposed the use of partial life-cycle toxicity tests with the early life-stages (ELS) of fish to establish water quality criteria.
McKim (1977) evaluated the data from 56 full life-cycle tests, 32 of which used the fathead minnow, Pimephales promelas, and concluded that the embryo-larval and early juvenile life-stages were the most sensitive stages.