Effects of water quality on development of Xenopus laevis: A frog embryo teratogenesis assay - Xenopus assessment of surface water associated with malformations in native anurans

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 2114-2121

  Tietge, Joseph E ^a   Ankley, Gerald T ^a   Defoe, David L ^a   Holcombe, Gary W ^a   Jensen, Kathleen M ^a  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Developmental toxicity; Frog embryo teratogenesis assay Xenopus; Malformations; Surface waters; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; SURFACE WATER;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOFACIAL DEVELOPMENT; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TERATOGENESIS; UNITED STATES; WATER QUALITY; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALIA; ANURA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0033880699     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/etc.5620190822     Document Type: Article

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