Fluctuating wing asymmetry and hepatic concentrations of persistent organic pollutants are associated in European shag (Phalacrocorax aristotelis) chicks

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 408, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 578-585

  Jenssen, Bjørn Munro ^a   Aarnes, Jon Birger ^a   Murvoll, Kari Mette ^a   Herzke, Dorte ^b   Nygård, Torgeir ^c  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR AIR RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

BFR; Ecotoxicology; Norway; PCB; Pollution; Seabirds

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC BIRDS; BFR; BIOLOGICAL VARIABLES; BIVARIATE CORRELATIONS; BODY BURDEN; BODY MASS; BONE GROWTH; BONE STRUCTURE; ECO-TOXICOLOGY; FLUCTUATING ASYMMETRY; GROWTH DILUTION; HEPATIC CONCENTRATIONS; PARTIAL LEAST SQUARES ANALYSIS; PCB CONGENERS; PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; PLS MODELS; THYROID HORMONES; TO EFFECT; VITAMIN A; VITAMIN-E;

BONE; HORMONES; MAMMALS; PALLETS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; PRINTED CIRCUITS;

ORGANIC POLLUTANTS;

ORGANIC COMPOUND; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE; POLYBROMINATED DIETHYL ETHER; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; RETINOL; THYROID HORMONE; TOCOPHEROL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CORRELATION; ECOTOXICOLOGY; HOMEOSTASIS; MORPHOLOGY; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PCB; SEABIRD;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BREEDING; CHICK; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DILUTION; ECOTOXICOLOGY; FORELIMB; GROWTH RATE; HATCHING; HEEL; HOMEOSTASIS; HORMONE DETERMINATION; LIVER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; BODY WEIGHT; BONE AND BONES; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; LIVER; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; POLYBROMINATED BIPHENYLS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; TIME FACTORS; WING;

AVES; PHALACROCORAX ARISTOTELIS;

EID: 70649085832     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2009.10.036     Document Type: Article

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