Morphological and reproductive characteristics of male mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis holbrooki) inhabiting sewage-contaminated waters in New South Wales, Australia

Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 301-307

  Batty, J ^a   Lim, R ^b  

^a EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN;

FISH; MORPHOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SEWAGE DISPOSAL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; COPULATION; FISH; GENITAL SYSTEM; HORMONAL REGULATION; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MORPHOLOGY; MOTOR DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SAMPLING; SEWAGE EFFLUENT; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS WEIGHT; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER POLLUTION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; FRESH WATER; GENITALIA, MALE; MALE; NEW SOUTH WALES; SEASONS; SEWAGE; WATER POLLUTION;

EID: 0032987966     PISSN: 00904341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002449900475     Document Type: Article

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