Plasma vitellogenin in Morelet's crocodiles from contaminated habitats in northern Belize

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 153, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 101-109

  Rainwater, Thomas R ^a   Selcer, Kyle W ^b   Nespoli, Lisa M ^b   Finger, Adam G ^a   Ray, David A ^a   Platt, Steven G ^c   Smith, Philip N ^a   Densmore, Llewellyn D ^a   Anderson, Todd A ^a   McMurry, Scott T ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SUL ROSS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Belize; Crocodiles; Endocrine disruption; Organochlorine pesticides; Vitellogenin

Indexed keywords

BIOMARKERS; BLOOD; CONTAMINATION; ENDOCRINOLOGY; MARINE BIOLOGY;

BELIZES; CONTAMINATED HABITATS; CROCODILES; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTION; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDES; VITELLOGENINS;

ANIMALS;

ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE; VITELLOGENIN;

BIOMARKER; CROCODILIAN; DETECTION METHOD; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; HABITAT LOSS; HABITAT QUALITY; ORGANOCHLORINE; PESTICIDE; PLASMA; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; WETLAND;

ALLIGATOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BELIZE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BREEDING; CONTAMINATED ORGANISM; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; JUVENILE ANIMAL; MALE; NONHUMAN;

ALLIGATORS AND CROCODILES; ANIMALS; BELIZE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; MALE; PESTICIDES; SKIN; VITELLOGENINS; WETLANDS;

BELIZE [CENTRAL AMERICA]; CENTRAL AMERICA;

ANIMALIA; CROCODYLIDAE (ALL CROCODILES); CROCODYLUS MORELETII; REPTILIA;

EID: 41949090362     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2007.07.018     Document Type: Article

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