Tributyltin (TBT) effects on Ocinebrina aciculata (Gastropoda: Muricidae): Imposex development, sterilization, sex change and population decline

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 188, Issue 2-3, 1996, Pages 205-223

  Oehlmann, J ^a   Fioroni, P ^b   Stroben, E ^b   Markert, B ^a  

^a International Graduate School Zittau   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biomonitoring; Imposex; Ocinebrina aciculata; Pollution; Population decline; Prosobranchia; Reproductive failure; TBT

Indexed keywords

TRIBUTYLTIN; XENOBIOTIC AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; WATER POLLUTION;

ACICULATA; ANIMALIA; ERINACEA; GASTROPODA; MURICIDAE; NUCELLA LAPILLUS; OCENEBRA ACICULATA; OCENEBRA ERINACEA; OCINEBRINA; OCINEBRINA ACICULATA; PROSOBRANCHIA;

IMPOSEX; ORGANOTIN COMPOUNDS; POLLUTION; POLLUTION EFFECTS; POPULATION DECLINE; TBT; TRIBUTYLTIN;

FRANCE, BRITTANY, ROSCOFF;

EID: 0030580032     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0048-9697(96)05173-X     Document Type: Article

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