A ranking system for the evaluation of intersex condition in european flounder (Platichthys flesus)

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2831-2836

  Bateman, Kelly S ^a   Stentiford, Grant D ^a   Feist, Stephen W ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Endocrine disruption; Estuary; Flounder; Intersex; Platichthys flesus

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; CELLS; HISTOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; TISSUE;

ENDOCRINE DISRUPTION; INTERSEX CONDITIONS; OVOTESTIS SEVERITY INDEX (OSI); SEX HORMONES;

FISHERIES;

ESTRADIOL; SEX HORMONE;

CHEMICAL POLLUTANT; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; INDEX METHOD; INTERSEX; POLLUTION EFFECT;

ARTICLE; BISEXUALITY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EUROPE; EXPOSURE; FLATFISH; FLOUNDER; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE MATURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; TECHNIQUE; TESTIS; VITELLOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FLOUNDER; GREAT BRITAIN; HERMAPHRODITISM; MALE; OOCYTES; TESTIS;

PLATICHTHYS; PLATICHTHYS FLESUS; PLEURONECTIFORMES; PLEURONECTOIDEI;

EID: 10044249942     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/03-541.1     Document Type: Article

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