Latent mortality of juvenile snapping turtles from the upper Hudson River, New York, exposed maternally and via the diet to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 6052-6057

  Eisenreich, Karen M ^a   Kelly, Shannon M ^a   Rowe, Christopher L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONIC EFFECTS; CONTAMINATED AREAS; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FACTORIAL EXPERIMENT; HATCHING SUCCESS; HEPATOSOMATIC INDICES; HIGH RATE; HUDSON RIVER; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; METABOLIC RATES; MORTALITY RATE; NEW YORK;

ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HAZARDOUS MATERIALS; NUTRITION; PRINTED CIRCUITS;

POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS;

POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

DIET; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; GROWTH RATE; JUVENILE; LIFE CYCLE; MATERNAL EFFECT; METABOLISM; MORTALITY; PCB; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; SUBLETHAL EFFECT; SURVIVORSHIP; TURTLE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GROWTH RATE; HATCHING; JUVENILE; LATENT PERIOD; LIFE CYCLE; LIVER WEIGHT; MALE; METABOLIC RATE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; THYROID WEIGHT; TOXICITY TESTING; TURTLE;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEW YORK; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; TIME FACTORS; TURTLES; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

HUDSON RIVER; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; CHELYDRIDAE;

EID: 68049147701     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es9008344     Document Type: Article

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