Imposex occurrence in marine whelks at a military facility in the high Arctic

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 142, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 98-102

  Strand, Jakob ^a   Glahder, Christian M ^a   Asmund, Gert ^a  

^a NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Arctic; Buccinum; Greenland; Imposex; TBT

Indexed keywords

MARINE STATIONS; ORGANOTIN ANALYSES; TRIBUTYLTIN (TBT); TRIPHENYLTIN (TPHT);

ARCTIC ENGINEERING; BIOMARKERS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTAMINATION; MARINE ENGINEERING; TIN COMPOUNDS;

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION;

ANTIFOULING AGENT; TRIBUTYLTIN; TRIPHENYLTIN;

BIOMARKER; IMPOSEX; MARINE POLLUTION; ORGANOTIN COMPOUND; SEDIMENT; TRIBUTYLTIN;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BUCCINUM FINMARKIANUM; CLAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECOTOXICOLOGY; FEMALE PSEUDOHERMAPHRODITISM; GASTROPOD; NONHUMAN; SEA POLLUTION; SEDIMENT; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ANIMALS; ARCTIC REGIONS; DISORDERS OF SEX DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GASTROPODA; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GREENLAND; HERMAPHRODITISM; MOLLUSCACIDES; ORGANOTIN COMPOUNDS; SHIPS; TRIALKYLTIN COMPOUNDS; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; THULE;

BIVALVIA; BUCCINUM;

EID: 33646071856     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2005.09.014     Document Type: Article

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