Assessment of environmental stressors potentially responsible for malformations in North American anuran amphibians

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 7-16

  Ankley, Gerald T ^a   Degitz, S J ^a   Diamond, S A ^a   Tietge, J E ^a  

^a Office of Research and Development   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibian; Chemical; Malformation; Trematode; Ultraviolet radiation

Indexed keywords

METHOPRENE; PESTICIDE; RETINOID;

AMPHIBIAN; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; LIMB; MUTATION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

AMPHIBIA; ARTICLE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DOSE RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENT; EXPERIMENTATION; FROGS AND TOADS; INFESTATION; LIMB DEVELOPMENT; LIMB MALFORMATION; MONITORING; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; PARASITE; POLLUTION; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOLAR RADIATION; STRESS; TREMATODE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; WETLAND;

ABNORMALITIES; ANIMALS; ANURA; ENVIRONMENT; HINDLIMB; NORTH AMERICA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TREMATODA; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; ANURA; TREMATODA;

EID: 1842861846     PISSN: 01476513     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2004.01.004     Document Type: Article

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