Environmental contamination and developmental abnormalities in eggs and hatchlings of the common snapping turtle (Chelydra serpentina serpentina) from the Great Lakes-St Lawrence River basin (1989-91)

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 143-156

  Bishop, Christine A ^a   Ng, P ^a   Pettit, K E ^a   Kennedy, S W ^a   Stegeman, J J ^a   Norstrom, R J ^a   Brooks, R J ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Abnormalities; Eggs; Great Lakes; Organochlorines; Reptile

Indexed keywords

CHLORINATED HYDROCARBON; CYTOCHROME P450; ETHOXYRESORUFIN DEETHYLASE; MERCURY; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZODIOXIN; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZOFURAN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CANADA; ECOTOXICOLOGY; EGG; EMBRYOTOXICITY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; TURTLE; UNITED STATES; WATER POLLUTION;

ANIMALIA; CHELYDRA; CHELYDRA SERPENTINA SERPENTINA; INVERTEBRATA; REPTILIA; TESTUDINES;

EID: 0031664545     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0269-7491(98)00005-0     Document Type: Article

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