Better the devil you know? A precautionary approach to using amphipods and daphnids in endocrine disruptor studies

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1019-1021

  Ford, Alex T ^a   Fernandes, Teresa F ^a  

^a EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR;

AMPHIPODA; DAPHNIA; DRUG RESEARCH; DRUG SENSITIVITY; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; FEMINIZATION; GERM CELL; HERMAPHRODITISM; INVERTEBRATE; LETTER; LIFE CYCLE; MICROSPORIDA; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

AMPHIPODA; ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; DAPHNIA; ENDOCRINE GLANDS; MODELS, ANIMAL; RESEARCH DESIGN; TOXICITY TESTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

AMPHIPODA; DAPHNIA; DAPHNIIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; MICROSPORIDIA;

EID: 18244409378     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/04-363R.1     Document Type: Letter

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