Chemical contaminants and biological indicators of mussel health during gametogenesis

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 2080-2087

  Hellou, Jocelyne ^a   Yeats, Phil ^a   Steller, Sean ^a   Gagné, François ^b  

^a BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Coprostanol; Metals; Mussels; Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons; Vitellogenin

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; BIOMARKERS; IMPURITIES; LIPIDS; SEWAGE;

MUSSEL HEALTH;

TOXICITY;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CADMIUM; COPPER; COPROSTEROL; LEAD; LIPID; MERCURY; METAL; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC COMPOUND; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CANADA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GAMETOGENESIS; GONAD; INDUSTRIALIZATION; LIPID COMPOSITION; MALE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MUSSEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; SEWAGE; SEX RATIO; SPRING; SUMMER; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BIVALVIA; CHOLESTANOL; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; GAMETOGENESIS; GONADS; HEALTH STATUS; MALE; METALS, HEAVY; NOVA SCOTIA; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEX FACTORS; SEX RATIO; VITELLOGENINS;

ANIMALIA; INVERTEBRATA; MYTILUS; MYTILUS EDULIS;

EID: 0242287339     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/02-396     Document Type: Article

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