Predicting maternal body burdens of organochlorine pesticides from eggs and evidence of maternal transfer in Alligator mississippiensis

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2906-2915

  Rauschenberger, Richard H ^a,b   Sepúlveda, María S ^a,b   Wiebe, Jon J ^a,b   Szabo, Nancy J ^c   Gross, Timothy S ^a,b  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Egg; Maternal transfer; Organochlorine pesticides; Reptile

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BLOOD; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); LIPIDS; MUSCLE; TISSUE;

ALLIGATORS; MATERNAL BODY BURDENS; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDES;

PESTICIDES;

LIPID; ORGANOCHLORINE DERIVATIVE; PESTICIDE;

ORGANOCHLORINE; REPTILE;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ALLIGATOR; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); EGG; EGG YOLK; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; LIVER; MUSCLE TISSUE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPTILE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STEADY STATE;

ALLIGATORS AND CROCODILES; ANIMALS; BILE; BODY BURDEN; EGG YOLK; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FLORIDA; FRESH WATER; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; LIPIDS; LIVER; MUSCLES; PESTICIDES; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ALLIGATOR; ALLIGATOR MISSISSIPPIENSIS; ALLIGATORINAE; ANIMALIA; CROCODYLIDAE (ALL CROCODILES); REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 10044294864     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/03-584.1     Document Type: Article

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