Evolutionary biology of plant defenses against herbivory and their predictive implications for endocrine disruptor susceptibility in vertebrates

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 109, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 443-448

  Wynne Edwards, Katherine E ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Diet; Endocrine disruptors; Estrogen receptor; Evolution; Fertility; Plant herbivore coevolution; Sex steroids

Indexed keywords

HORMONE; HORMONE RECEPTOR; PLANT EXTRACT; STEROID; STEROID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL FOOD; BREEDING; CARNIVORE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EATING HABIT; ECOSYSTEM; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0035325093     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.01109443     Document Type: Review

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