Basin-wide impacts of compounds with estrogen-like activity on longnose dace (Rhinichthys cataractae) in two prairie rivers of Alberta, Canada

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2042-2052

  Jeffries, Ken M ^a   Nelson, Erik R ^b   Jackson, Leland J ^b   Habibi, Hamid R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Endocrine disruption; Minnows; Quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction; Vitellogenin; Water quality

Indexed keywords

ABS RESINS; AGRICULTURAL RUNOFF; AGRICULTURE; AQUACULTURE; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; FISHERIES; PHOTOMASKS; RIVERS; WASTEWATER;

ENDOCRINE DISRUPTION; MINNOWS; QUANTITATIVE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION-POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VITELLOGENIN; WATER QUALITY;

RIVER POLLUTION;

VITELLOGENIN;

AGRICULTURAL RUNOFF; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ENZYME; FISH; PROTEIN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RNA; WASTEWATER; WATER QUALITY;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATTLE FARMING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; FEMALE; FISH; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHINICHTHYS CATARACTAE; RIVER; SEX DIFFERENCE; WASTE WATER; WATER QUALITY;

ACTINS; ALBERTA; ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYPRINIDAE; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ESTROGENS; ESTROGENS, NON-STEROIDAL; FEMALE; FRESH WATER; GONADS; GROWTH; LIVER; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX RATIO; VITELLOGENINS; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ALBERTA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

BOS; CYPRINIDAE; RHINICHTHYS CATARACTAE;

EID: 53949102264     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/07-529.1     Document Type: Article

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