Gonadal development of larval male Xenopus laevis exposed to atrazine in outdoor microcosms

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 5255-5261

  Jooste, Alarik M ^a   Du Preez, Louis H ^a   Carr, James A ^b   Giesy, John P ^c,d   Gross, Timothy S ^e   Kendall, Ronald J ^b   Smith, Ernest E ^b   Van Der Kraak, Glen L ^f   Solomon, Keith R ^f  

^a NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^e U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); HISTOLOGY; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

AFRICAN CLAWED FROG; ATRIZINE; GONADAL DEVELOPMENT; ONTOGENY; TESTICULAR OOCYTES;

LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES;

ATRAZINE;

POLLUTION EXPOSURE; REPRODUCTIVE DISORDER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; HISTOLOGY; LARVA; MALE; METAMORPHOSIS; MICROCOSM; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; OOCYTE; PHOTOPERIODICITY; TADPOLE; TESTIS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; ATRAZINE; HERBICIDES; LARVA; MALE; METAMORPHOSIS, BIOLOGICAL; OOCYTES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TESTIS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALIA; ANURA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 22344449315     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es048134q     Document Type: Article

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