Raw data for: Are standard test species still relevant? A comprehensive assessment of Daphnia pulex reared in laboratory and wild environments and their responses to organic ultraviolet filters

The establishment of laboratory-based species has facilitated the standardization of biological research methods; however, stable culturing conditions of laboratories are dissimilar to the dynamic conditions of natural environments, potentially influencing fundamentally different research outcomes between lab and wild populations. This study sought to compare the toxicity of ultraviolet filters (UVFs) avobenzone, octocrylene and oxybenzone to lab and wild populations of Daphnia pulex, while also testing the effects of culturing both populations in either OECD (lab) or lake water in 48 h and 21 d toxicity tests. Both daphnid populations demonstrated poor performance when cultured in non-ancestral waters for three generations (i.e., lab Daphnia in lake water or wild Daphnia in OECD water), including 25% decreased reproduction in control treatments and ≥50% mortality in most UVF treatments. Toxicity varied in each population cultured in ancestral waters; lab D. pulex were more sensitive to..., , , # Raw data for: Are standard test species still relevant? A comprehensive assessment of Daphnia pulex reared in laboratory and wild environments and their responses to organic ultraviolet filters

[https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.nvx0k6f13](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.nvx0k6f13)

The \"Labvswild_raw_data.xlsx\" file contains the raw data for the manuscript titled \"Are standard test species still relevant? A comprehensive assessment of Daphnia pulex reared in laboratory and wild environments and their responses to organic ultraviolet filters\", published in the journal Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry. (DOI: 10.1093/etojnl/vgaf192)

##### Corresponding author:

Aaron Boyd

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University of Alberta

## Description of the data and file structure

### Sheet: 21_d_exposures

This sheet contains the raw data for the 21-day exposure experiment.

**Column A (Treatment_ID)**

A 4-letter code summarizing the parameters from columns D-G

The first lette...,