Infertility in a marine crustacean: Have we been ignoring pollution impacts on male invertebrates?

Aquatic Toxicology

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 81-87

  Yang, Gongda ^a   Kille, Peter ^b   Ford, Alex T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Crustacean; Endocrine disruption; Intersexuality; Male fertility; Sperm counts

Indexed keywords

AMPHIPOD; BIOMARKER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; INDUSTRIAL EMISSION; INFERTILITY; INTERSEX; MARICULTURE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MARINE POLLUTION; MOLT; MORPHOLOGY; POLLUTION EFFECT; SPERM;

AMPHIPODA; AQUACULTURE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRUSTACEA; ECHINOGAMMARUS MARINUS; ECOTOXICOLOGY; FEMALE FERTILITY; GROWTH; HERMAPHRODITISM; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MOLTING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; UNITED KINGDOM; WATER POLLUTION;

AMPHIPODA; ANIMALS; FEMALE; MALE; REPRODUCTION; SPERM COUNT; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

CRUSTACEA; ECHINOGAMMARUS MARINUS; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 43049176616     PISSN: 0166445X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aquatox.2008.03.008     Document Type: Article

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