Seasonal evaluation of reproductive status and exposure to environmental estrogens in hornyhead turbot at the municipal wastewater outfall of Orange County, CA

Environmental Toxicology

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 464-471

  Deng, Xin ^a   Rempel, Mary Ann ^a   Armstrong, Jeff ^b   Schlenk, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ORANGE COUNTY SANITATION DISTRICT   (United States)

Author keywords

Estrogens; Hornyhead turbot; Reproductive status; Vitellogenin; Wastewater

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; WASTEWATER;

ESTROGENS; GONADOSOMATIC INDEX; HORNYHEAD TURBOT; REPRODUCTIVE STATUS; VITELLOGENIN;

HORMONES;

ESTROGEN DERIVATIVE; VITELLOGENIN;

DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ESTROGENIC COMPOUND; FLATFISH; HISTOPATHOLOGY; PROTEIN; REPRODUCTIVE STATUS; SEASONALITY; SEX RATIO; WASTEWATER;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LIPOPROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NONHUMAN; OVARY CYCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; REPRODUCTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEX RATIO; TURBOT; UNITED STATES; WASTE WATER;

ANIMALS; CALIFORNIA; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; FLATFISHES; MALE; OVARY; REPRODUCTION; SEASONS; TESTIS; VITELLOGENINS; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

CALIFORNIA; DANA POINT; NORTH AMERICA; ORANGE COUNTY [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

PLEURONICHTHYS VERTICALIS;

EID: 34548709738     PISSN: 15204081     EISSN: 15227278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tox.20287     Document Type: Article

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