Recent Publications

Nations, SL, M Wages, JE Cañas, J Maul, C Theodorakis, and GP Cobb. Acute effects of Fe2O3, TiO2, ZnO and CuO nanomaterials on Xenopus laevis. Chemosphere. Accepted.

Nations, SL, M Wages, MK Long, JE Cañas, J Maul, C Theodorakis, and GP Cobb. 2011. Effects of ZnO nanomaterials on Xenopus laevis on growth and development. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety 74: 203-210.

Anderson JAH, JE Cañas, MK Long, JC Zak, and SB Cox. 2009. Effects of hexahydro-1,3,5-trinitro-1,3,5-triazine (RDX) on soil microbial community structure and function.  Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 29(1): 38-44.

Cañas, JE, MK Long, SL Nations, R Vadan, L Dai, M Luo, R Ambikapathi, EH Lee, and D Olszyk. 2008. Effects of functionalized and non-functionalized single-wall carbon nanotubes on root elongation of select crop species.  Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 27(9): 157-166. (This article was featured in a special issue: “Nanomaterials in the Environment”)

Rainwater, TR, TH Wu, AG Finger, JE Cañas, L Yu, KD Reynolds, G Coimbatore, B Barr, SG Platt, GP Cobb, TA Anderson, and ST McMurry. 2007. Metals and organochlorine pesticides in caudal scutes of crocodiles from Belize and Costa Rica. Science of the Total Environment 373:146-156.

Yu, L, Q Cheng, JE Cañas, L Valentin-Blasini, BC Blount, and TA Anderson. 2006. Challenges in determining perchlorate in biological tissues and fluids: Implications for characterizing perchlorate exposure. Analytica Chimica Acta 567:66-72.

Zhang, B-H, CM Freitag, JE Cañas, Q Cheng, and TA Anderson. 2006. Effects of hexahydro-1,3,5-trinitro-1,3,5-triazine (RDX) metabolites on cricket (Acheta domesticus) survival and reproductive success. Environmental Pollution 144: 151-157.

Wu, TH, JE Cañas, TR Rainwater, SG Platt, ST McMurry, and TA Anderson. 2006. Organochlorine contaminants in complete clutches of Morelet’s crocodile (Crocodylus moreletii) eggs from Belize. Environmental Pollution 144: 540-544.

Landrum, M, JE Cañas, G Coimbatore, GP Cobb, WA Jackson, B Zhang, and TA Anderson. 2006. Effects of perchlorate on earthworm (Eisenia fetida) survival and reproductive success. Science of the Total Environment 363: 237-244.

Cañas, JE, R Patel, K Tian, and TA Anderson. 2006. Development of an extraction method for perchlorate in soils. Journal of Environmental Monitoring 8(3): 399-405.

Cañas, JE, Q Cheng, K Tian, and TA Anderson. 2006. Optimization of operating conditions for the determination of perchlorate in biological samples using preconcentration/preelution ion chromatography. Journal of Chromatography A 1103: 102-109.

Cheng, Q, F Liu, JE Cañas, and TA Anderson. 2006. A Cleanup method for perchlorate determination in urine. Talanta 68:1457-1462.