The use of F. candida and F. fimetaria for ecotoxicological testing purposes has
been covered in various publications including: (Riepert and Kula, 1996; Wiles and
Krogh, 1998; Fountain and Hopkin, 2005; Scott-Fordsmand and Krogh, 2005;
Environment-Canada, 2007). As F. fimetaria is not yet included in internationally
approved standards and is less studied than F. candida, it is briefly introduced here.
A bibliographic search in Science Citation Index (ISI Web of Knowledge/Web of
Science accessed Jan 2008) revealed about 400 papers referring to F. candida and
74 papers referring to F. fimetaria. Of the F. fimetaria papers, about 35 deal with
ecotoxicology and some 27 originate from the NERI Soil Fauna laboratory or
authors affiliated to this laboratory.