Reproductive deficits in male freshwater turtle Chrysemys picta from Cape Cod, Massachusetts

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 346-352

  Kitana, Noppadon ^a,b   Won, Seung Jae ^b   Callard, Ian P ^b  

^a CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

Environment; Spermatogenesis; Testis; Xenobiotics

Indexed keywords

CYCLINE; DRINKING WATER; FRESH WATER; GROUND WATER; INDUSTRIAL CHEMICAL; XENOBIOTIC AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHEMICAL WASTE; CHRYSEMYS PICTA; CLOACA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDIDYMIS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PLUME; POND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; TESTIS WEIGHT; TURTLE; UNITED STATES; WASTE DISPOSAL; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SUPPLY;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FRESH WATER; GENITALIA, MALE; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; PROLIFERATING CELL NUCLEAR ANTIGEN; REPRODUCTION; SPERM COUNT; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE; TURTLES; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; XENOBIOTICS;

ANIMALIA; CHRYSEMYS PICTA; EMYDIDAE; TESTUDINES;

EID: 33847195811     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.106.053736     Document Type: Article

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