Potential endocrine disruption of ovary synthesis in the Christmas Island red crab Gecarcoidea natalis by the insecticide pyriproxyfen

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 154, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 289-297

  Linton, Stuart ^a   Barrow, Lauren ^b   Davies, Claire ^c   Harman, Laura ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b King Island Natural Resource Management Group   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Endocrinology; Environmental toxicology; Land crabs; Methyl farnesoate; Oogenesis; Ovary synthesis; Pyriproxyfen

Indexed keywords

METHYLFARNESOATE; NITROGEN; PYRIPROXYFEN; TERPENOID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRAB; DIETARY INTAKE; DRY MASS; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; HISTOLOGY; MIDGUT; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OVARY FUNCTION; SYNTHESIS; VITELLOGENESIS;

ANIMALIA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); GECARCINIDAE; GECARCOIDEA NATALIS; HEXAPODA;

ANIMALS; BRACHYURA; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; FATTY ACIDS, UNSATURATED; FEMALE; OVARY; PYRIDINES;

EID: 70149084963     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2009.02.024     Document Type: Article

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