General condition biomarkers in relation to contaminant burden in European flounder (Platichthys flesus)

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 335-355

  Kleinkauf, Anne ^a,c   Connor, Leslie ^a   Swarbreck, David ^a   Levene, Carolyn ^a   Walker, Peter ^a   Johnson, Paul J ^b   Leah, Richard T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c Department of Zoology ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

CF; Contamination; Dee; Endocrine disruption; Flounder; Growth; GSI; HSI; Mersey; Organochlorine pesticides

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; LINDANE; VITELLOGENIN;

BIOMARKER; CHEMICAL POLLUTANT; ESTROGENIC COMPOUND; FISH;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTUARY; FEMALE; FLOUNDER; GROWTH RATE; IMMATURITY; LIVER; MALE; MATURITY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEASONAL VARIATION;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BIOMETRY; BODY WEIGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESTROGENS, NON-STEROIDAL; FEMALE; FLOUNDER; GONADS; GREAT BRITAIN; LIVER; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; OTOLITHIC MEMBRANE; SEASONS; SEAWATER; VITELLOGENINS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; XENOBIOTICS;

DEE ESTUARY; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; MERSEY ESTUARY; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

ANIMALIA; PLATICHTHYS; PLATICHTHYS FLESUS; PLEURONECTOIDEI;

EID: 3042587290     PISSN: 01476513     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2004.03.007     Document Type: Article

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