Raised plasma vitellogenin in male wild brown trout (Salmo trutta) near a wastewater treatment plant in Ireland

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1773-1779

  Tarrant, Heloise ^a   Mousakitis, Geriasimos ^b   Wylde, Suzanne ^b   Tattersall, Nicholas ^b   Lyons, Anne ^a   Maloney, Michelle ^a   Llewellyn, Neville ^c  

^a Ireland   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^c CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brown trout; Endocrine disruption; Estrogen; Vitellogenin; Wastewater treatment plant

Indexed keywords

AQUACULTURE; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CONTAMINATION; FISH; FISHERIES; HEALTH; PLASMAS; POPULATION STATISTICS; RIVERS; SEWAGE PUMPING PLANTS; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION; WATER TREATMENT; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENTS; BROWN TROUT; BROWN TROUTS; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTION; ESTROGEN; ESTROGENIC CHEMICALS; FISH POPULATIONS; IRELAND; MUNICIPAL WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANTS; PLASMA VITELLOGENIN; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; RIVER LIFFEY; VITELLOGENIN; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; ESTROGEN; VITELLOGENIN;

BIOLOGICAL SURVEY; BIOMARKER; BLOOD; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ESTROGENIC COMPOUND; INTERSEX; POLLUTION EFFECT; PROTEIN; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; RIVER POLLUTION; SALMONID; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BROWN TROUT; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; INCIDENCE; IRELAND; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; IRELAND; MALE; RIVERS; SEX RATIO; TROUT; VITELLOGENINS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER PURIFICATION; YEASTS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; IRELAND; WESTERN EUROPE;

SALMO TRUTTA;

EID: 48949091029     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/07-436.1     Document Type: Article

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