Intersexuality and the cricket frog decline: Historic and geographic trends

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 261-265

  Reeder, Amy L ^a   Ruiz, Marilyn O ^a   Pessier, Allan ^b   Brown, Lauren E ^c   Levengood, Jeffrey M ^a   Phillips, Christopher A ^d   Wheeler, Matthew B ^a   Warner, Richard E ^a   Beasley, Val R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Acris crepitans; Amphibian; Cricket frogs; Endocrine disruption; Environmental contaminants; Illinois; Intersexuality

Indexed keywords

CHLORPHENOTANE; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CONTAMINATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FEMALE; FROG; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GONAD; HERMAPHRODITISM; INDUSTRIALIZATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES EXTINCTION; UNITED STATES; URBANIZATION;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HERMAPHRODITISM; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; ILLINOIS; MALE; MUSEUMS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RANIDAE; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ACRIS CREPITANS; AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; ANURA; FEJERVARYA NICOBARIENSIS;

EID: 16244396160     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.7276     Document Type: Article

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