Increased posthatching mortality and loss of sexually dimorphic gene expression in alligators (Alligator mississippiensis) from a contaminated environment

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 932-938

  Milnes, Matthew R ^a,c   Bryan, Teresa A ^a   Katsu, Yoshinao ^b   Kohno, Satomi ^a   Moore, Brandon C ^a   Iguchi, Taisen ^b   Guillette Jr , Louis J ^a  

^a University of Florida ^*  (United States)

^b OKAZAKI INSTITUTE FOR INTEGRATIVE BIOSCIENCE   (Japan)

^c ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Estradiol; Gene regulation; Steroid hormones; Testosterone; Toxicology

Indexed keywords

3BETA ISOMERASE 1; CHOLESTEROL MONOOXYGENASE (SIDE CHAIN CLEAVING); ESTRADIOL; HYDROXY DELTA5 STEROID DEHYDROGENASE; MESSENGER RNA; STEROID DELTA ISOMERASE; STEROID DELTA ISOMERASE 1; STEROID REDUCTASE; STEROIDOGENIC ACUTE REGULATORY PROTEIN; STEROIDOGENIC FACTOR 1; TESTOSTERONE;

ALLIGATOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYP11A1 GENE; DEATH; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HATCHING; HATCHLING; HSD3B1 GENE; LAKE; LIVER; MORPHOMETRICS; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NR5A1 GENE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPLEEN; STAR GENE; THYROID GLAND; UNITED STATES; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER POLLUTANT;

ALLIGATORS AND CROCODILES; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CHOLESTEROL SIDE-CHAIN CLEAVAGE ENZYME; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MALE; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; STEROIDOGENIC FACTOR 1; STEROIDS; TESTOSTERONE;

ALLIGATOR MISSISSIPPIENSIS; ALLIGATORINAE; ANIMALIA;

EID: 43249114644     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.107.064915     Document Type: Article

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