Contaminants in eggs of colonial waterbirds and hepatic cytochrome P450 enzyme levels in pipped tern embryos, Washington State

Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 492-497

  Blus, L J ^a   Melancon, M J ^b   Hoffman, D J ^b   Henny, C J ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b PATUXENT WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME P450; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

ARTICLE; BIRD; ECOTOXICITY; EGG; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; CYTOCHROME P-450 ENZYME SYSTEM; EGGS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; LIVER; PESTICIDE RESIDUES; WASHINGTON;

ANIMALIA; AVES; LARIDAE; PELECANIDAE; PELECANUS ERYTHRORHYNCHOS; STERNA CASPIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031657954     PISSN: 00904341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002449900407     Document Type: Article

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