Effects of atrazine and iridovirus infection on survival and life-history traits of the long-toed salamander (Ambystoma macrodactylum)

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 168-173

  Forson, Diane ^a   Storfer, Andrew ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambystoma macrodactylum; Amphibian decline; Atrazin; Contaminant; Iridovirus

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DISEASES; IMPURITIES; PATHOLOGY; TOXIC MATERIALS; VIRUSES;

AMBYSTOMA MACRODACTYLUM; AMPHIBIAN DECLINE; ATRAZIN; CONTAMINANT; IRIDOVIRUS;

NITROGEN COMPOUNDS;

ATRAZINE;

AMPHIBIAN; ATRAZINE; BIODIVERSITY; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT;

AMBYSTOMA; AMBYSTOMA MACRODACTYLUM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACTORIAL DESIGN; INFECTION RATE; IRIDOVIRUS; LARVA; METAMORPHOSIS; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; POLLUTANT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SALAMANDER; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS INFECTIVITY;

AMBYSTOMA; ANIMALS; ATRAZINE; HERBICIDES; IRIDOVIRUS; LARVA; METAMORPHOSIS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, ANIMAL; MORTALITY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

AMBYSTOMA; AMBYSTOMA MACRODACTYLUM; AMBYSTOMA TIGRINUM; AMBYSTOMA TIGRINUM STEBBENSI VIRUS; AMPHIBIA; AMPHIUMA MEANS; ANIMALIA; IRIDOVIRUS;

EID: 29744469589     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/05-260R.1     Document Type: Article

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