Chemical communication threatened by endocrine-disrupting chemicals

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 112, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 648-653

  Fox, Jennifer E ^a,b  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Convergent evolution; Ecosystem; Endocrine disruption; Endocrine disrupting chemicals; Environmental signaling; Estrogen receptor; Nitrogen fixation; Rhizobium; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICAL; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; HERBICIDE; INSECTICIDE; NITROGEN; PHYTOESTROGEN; PLASTICIZER; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; STEROID RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NITROGEN FIXATION; NODULATION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLANT MICROORGANISM INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR BINDING; RHIZOBIUM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOIL MICROFLORA; SYMBIOSIS; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); RHIZOBIUM; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 2442435876     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.6455     Document Type: Article

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