Endocrine responses of fundulus heteroclitus to effluent from a bleached-kraft pulp mill before and after installation of reverse osmosis treatment of a waste stream

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 2788-2796

  Dubé, Monique G ^a,b   MacLatchy, Deborah L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Endocrine disruption; Fundulus heteroclitus; Mummichog; Pulp mill effluent

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000760954     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/etc.5620191125     Document Type: Article

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