Environmentally relevant concentrations of endosulfan impair development, metamorphosis and behaviour in Bufo bufo tadpoles

Aquatic Toxicology

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 135-142

  Brunelli, Elvira ^a   Bernabò, Ilaria ^a   Berg, Cecilia ^b   Lundstedt Enkel, Katrin ^b   Bonacci, Antonella ^a   Tripepi, Sandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Amphibian decline; Endosulfan; Growth; Swimming activity; Tadpoles; Water pollution

Indexed keywords

ENDOSULFAN;

ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENDOSULFAN; LARVA; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; METAMORPHOSIS; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGY; ORGANOCHLORINE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION GROWTH; SWIMMING BEHAVIOR; TOAD; WATER POLLUTION;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOTOXICOLOGY; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; METAMORPHOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TADPOLE; TOAD; WATER POLLUTION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; BUFO BUFO; ENDOSULFAN; LARVA; METAMORPHOSIS, BIOLOGICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; ANURA; BUFO BUFO; MAMMALIA;

EID: 58149386218     PISSN: 0166445X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aquatox.2008.09.006     Document Type: Article

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