The environmental contaminant DDE fails to influence the outcome of sexual differentiation in the marine turtle Chelonia mydas

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 106, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 185-188

  Podreka, Suzana ^a   Georges, Arthur ^a   Maher, Bill ^a   Limpus, Colin J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

^b DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chelonia; DDT; Endocrine disrupting contaminant; Temperature dependent sex determination

Indexed keywords

1,1 DICHLORO 2,2 BIS(4 CHLOROPHENYL)ETHYLENE; SEX HORMONE;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFORMITY; EGG; EMBRYO; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; HATCHING; INCUBATION TIME; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SURVIVAL RATE; TURTLE;

CHELONIA MYDAS;

EID: 0031955032     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.98106185     Document Type: Article

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