Male coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) exposed to a time-course of urban sewage effluent exhibit a sporadic low incidence of sex reversal and intersex

Water Quality Research Journal of Canada

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 235-243

  Campbell, Pamela M ^a,b   Fernandez, Marc P ^c   Royston, Stephanie ^a   Smith, Jack L ^a   Van Poppelen, Paul ^d   Ikonomou, Michael G ^e   Devlin, Robert H ^a  

^a Fisheries and Oceans Canada   (Canada)

^b ToxEcology Environmental Consulting Ltd   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d Greater Vancouver Regional District   (Canada)

^e INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

Endocrine; Intersex; Municipal wastewater; Pacific salmon; Sex reversal

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); FISH; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HORMONES; WASTEWATER;

MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER; SEX REVERSAL;

LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); FISH; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HORMONES; LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES; WASTEWATER;

DNA; EFFLUENT; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ESTROGENIC COMPOUND; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; SALMONID; SEWAGE; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX HORMONE; SEX REVERSAL; STEROID;

ONCORHYNCHUS; ONCORHYNCHUS KISUTCH;

EID: 33947358123     PISSN: 12013080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wqrj.2006.027     Document Type: Article

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