Induction of mortality and malformation in Xenopus laevis embryos by water sources associated with field frog deformities

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 106, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 841-848

  Burkhart, James G ^a   Helgen, Judy C ^b   Fort, Douglas J ^c   Gallagher, Kathryn ^a   Bowers, Dorothy ^d   Propst, Timothy L ^c   Gernes, Mark ^b   Magner, Joe ^b   Shelby, Michael D ^a   Lucier, George ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b MINNESOTA POLLUTION CONTROL AGENCY   (United States)

^c Stover Group   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibian malformations; Environmental sentinels; FETAX; Teratogenesis

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; LAKE WATER; METAL; TOXIC SUBSTANCE;

ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO MORTALITY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FETAX ASSAY; FROG; MORPHOLOGY; NATURAL POPULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; TERATOGENESIS; ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIATION; UNITED STATES; WATER SUPPLY; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; ANURA; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0032457373     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.106-1533234     Document Type: Article

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