Early life-stage mortalities of Japanese medaka (Oryzias latipes) exposed to polychlorinated diphenyl ethers

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1749-1754

  Metcalfe, Chris D ^a   Metcalfe, Tracy L ^a   Cormier, James A ^b   Huestis, Susan Y ^c   Niimi, Art J ^c  

^a TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ST FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c FISHERIES AND OCEANS CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Diphenyl ethers; Embryotoxicity; Lake trout; Medaka

Indexed keywords

1,1 DICHLORO 2,2 BIS(4 CHLOROPHENYL)ETHYLENE; 2,3,7,8 TETRACHLORODIBENZO PARA DIOXIN; 3,3',4,4' TETRACHLOROBIPHENYL; LAKE WATER; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL DERIVATIVE; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZOFURAN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANADA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYOTOXICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FISH; LC 50; LIFE CYCLE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDUE ANALYSIS; TOXICITY TESTING; TROUT;

ANIMALIA; LATIPES; ORYZIAS LATIPES; SALMONIDAE; SALVELINUS NAMAYCUSH;

EID: 0030851457     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/1551-5028(1997)016<1749:ELSMOJ>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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