Seasonal reproductive health of flounder Platichthys flesus exposed to sewage effluent

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 170, Issue , 1998, Pages 249-260

  Lye, C M ^a   Frid, C L J ^a   Gill, M E ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Oestrogen; Ovarian development; Platichthys flesus; Sewage; Testicular morphology; Vitellogenin

Indexed keywords

ESTROGENIC COMPOUND; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; FLATFISH; POLLUTION EFFECT; REPRODUCTIVE CYCLE;

CUMBRIA; SOLWAY FIRTH; TYNE AND WEAR; TYNE ESTUARY; UNITED KINGDOM;

PLATICHTHYS FLESUS; PLEURONECTIFORMES; PLEURONECTOIDEI;

EID: 0032480306     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps170249     Document Type: Article

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