Effects of triphenyltin chloride and five other organotin compounds on the development of imposex in the rock shell, Thais clavigera

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 85-91

  Horiguchi, Toshihiro ^a   Shiraishi, Hiroaki ^a   Shimizu, Makoto ^b   Morita, Masatoshi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Imposex; Organotin; Thais clavigera; Tributyltin (TBT); Triphenyltin (TPT)

Indexed keywords

DIBUTYLTIN; ORGANOTIN COMPOUND; TRIBUTYLTIN; TRIPHENYLTIN CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; ECOTOXICOLOGY; GASTROPOD; GENITAL SYSTEM; JAPAN; PENIS; REPRODUCTION; WATER POLLUTION;

IMPOSEX; ORGANOTIN; ORGANOTIN COMPOUNDS; POLLUTION EFFECTS; ROCK SHELL; TRIPHENYLTIN CHLORIDE;

CLAVIGERA; GASTROPODA; MURICIDAE; PROSOBRANCHIA; THAIS; THAIS CLAVIGERA;

EID: 0030620892     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0269-7491(96)00093-0     Document Type: Article

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