Endosulfan affects pheromonal detection and glands in the male red-spotted newt, Notophthalmus viridescens

Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 609-616

  Park, D ^a   Propper, C R ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOSULFAN; INSECTICIDE; PHEROMONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; MATING; MEASUREMENT; MORPHOMETRICS; NEWT; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TOXICITY TESTING;

ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENDOSULFAN; EXOCRINE GLANDS; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; INSECTICIDES; MALE; NOTOPHTHALMUS VIRIDESCENS; PHEROMONES; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SMELL;

ANIMALIA; NOTOPHTHALMUS VIRIDESCENS; SALAMANDRIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036818884     PISSN: 00074861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00128-002-0104-8     Document Type: Article

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