Life-cycle exposure of fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas) to an ethinylestradiol concentration below 1 ng/L reduces egg fertilization success and demasculinizes males

Environmental Toxicology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 131-141

  Parrott, Joanne L ^a   Blunt, Beverley R ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Demasculinization; Endocrine disruption; Estrogen; Ethinylestradiol; Fathead minnow; Feminization; Fertilization; Life cycle

Indexed keywords

BIOASSAY; EFFLUENTS; HORMONES; LIFE CYCLE; TOXIC MATERIALS; WASTEWATER;

END POINTS; ETHINYLESTRADIOL (EE2); FERTILIZATION; MATURATION;

FISHERIES;

ETHINYLESTRADIOL;

ESTROGENIC COMPOUND; FECUNDITY; FERTILIZATION (REPRODUCTION); LIFE CYCLE; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; FEMALE; FEMINIZATION; FERTILITY; FERTILIZATION; FISH; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; GROWTH; HATCHING; LIFE CYCLE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; WASTE WATER;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; CYPRINIDAE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ESTROGENS; ETHINYL ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; MALE; OVUM; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX RATIO; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID;

CYPRINIFORMES; PHOXINUS PHOXINUS; PIMEPHALES PROMELAS;

EID: 17044364424     PISSN: 15204081     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tox.20087     Document Type: Article

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