Effects of sublethal concentrations of atrazine and nitrate on metamorphosis of the African clawed frog

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 627-635

  Sullivan, Karen Brown ^a   Spence, Karla M ^a  

^a WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibian metamorphosis; Atrazine; Mixtures; Nitrate

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS; NITRATES; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

METAMORPHOSIS;

TOXICITY;

AGRICULTURAL CHEMICAL; ATRAZINE; DRUG ADDITIVE; NITRATE;

ATRAZINE; CHEMICAL POLLUTANT; FROG; METAMORPHOSIS; NITRATE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE;

AMPHIBIA; ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MIXTURE; ECOTOXICITY; EMBRYO; EMBRYOTOXICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEEDING; FEMALE; FROG; HEMATOCRIT; LETHALITY; LIFE CYCLE; MALE; METAMORPHOSIS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TADPOLE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; ATRAZINE; BODY WEIGHT; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG INTERACTIONS; HEMATOCRIT; LARVA; METAMORPHOSIS, BIOLOGICAL; NITRATES; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; ANURA; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS (GENUS); XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0037369323     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/1551-5028(2003)022<0627:EOSCOA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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