Use of the Australian crimson-spotted rainbowfish (Melanotaenia fluviatilis) as a model test species for investigating the effects of endocrine disruptors

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2171-2178

  Pollino, Carmel A ^a   Georgiades, Eugene ^b   Holdway, Douglas A ^c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ONTARIO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Canada)

Author keywords

glutamyltranspeptidase; Crimson spotted rainbowfish; Estradiol; Phosphoprotein; Sex steroids

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ENZYMES; HISTOLOGY; HORMONES; PATHOLOGY; PLASMAS;

CRIMSON SPOTTED RAINBOWFISH; HISTOPATHOLOGY; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PLASMA TESTOSTERONES;

FISH;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ESTRADIOL; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; PHOSPHOPROTEIN; SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE; VITELLOGENIN;

EGG PRODUCTION; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; MODEL TEST; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PROTEIN; REPRODUCTION; STEROID; TELEOST;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATRESIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG PRODUCTION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FISH; GONAD; HATCHING; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HORMONE DETERMINATION; LARVA; MALE; MELANOTAENIA FLUVIATILIS; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMALS; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; FISHES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

MELANOTAENIA FLUVIATILIS;

EID: 35348901294     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/06-603R.1     Document Type: Article

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