Population responses of Peromyscus resident in Iowa cornfields treated with the organophosphorus pesticide COUNTER®

Ecotoxicology

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 189-200

  Block, Elizabeth K ^a   Lacher Jr , Thomas E ^b   Brewer, Larry W ^c   Cobb III, George P ^d   Kendall, Ronald J ^d  

^a Texas A/M University ^*  (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Ecotoxicology / Biosystems A Inc   (United States)

^d TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Organophosphates; Peromyscus; Population effects; Small mammals; Terbufos

Indexed keywords

CHOLINESTERASE; ORGANOPHOSPHATE PESTICIDE; TERBUFOS;

CHEMICAL POLLUTANT; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; MAMMAL; PESTICIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRICETIDAE; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; MALE; MORTALITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SEX RATIO; TIME; TOXICITY TESTING; UNITED STATES;

UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; CRICETINAE; MAMMALIA; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS LEUCOPUS; PEROMYSCUS MANICULATUS; VERTEBRATA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0032824954     PISSN: 09639292     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026444314558     Document Type: Article

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