Sensitivity of fish embryos to weathered crude oil: Part I. Low-level exposure during incubation causes malformations, genetic damage, and mortality in larval pacific herring (Clupea pallasi)

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 481-493

  Carls, Mark G ^a   Rice, Stanley D ^a   Hose, Jo Ellen ^b  

^a NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE   (United States)

^b OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Exxon Valdez oil spill; Genetic damage; Herring larvae; Morphological damage; Polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons

Indexed keywords

PETROLEUM; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON;

CRUDE OIL; EMBRYO; FISH; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; EMBRYO; EMBRYOTOXICITY; FISH; GENOTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; OIL SPILL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA POLLUTION; TOXICITY TESTING; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; CLUPEA HARENGUS; CLUPEA PALLASI; ONCORHYNCHUS GORBUSCHA;

EID: 0032999032     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/1551-5028(1999)018<0481:SOFETW>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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