Challenges in current adult fish laboratory reproductive tests: Suggestions for refinement using a mummichog (fundulus heteroclitus) case study

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 28, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2386-2396

  Bosker, Thijs ^a   Munkittrick, Kelly R ^a   Maclatchy, Deborah L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^b WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adult reproductive test; Fundulus heteroelitus; Power; Protocol refinement; Type II error

Indexed keywords

BEFORE AND AFTER; COEFFICIENT OF VARIANCE; EGG PRODUCTION; FISH SPECIES; FUNDULUS; HIGH PROBABILITY; LOW POWER; MUMMICHOGS; PRE-EXPOSURE; PROTOCOL REFINEMENT; SAMPLE POPULATION; SAMPLE SIZES; STUDY DESIGN; TYPE II ERROR;

BIOMARKERS; FISH; MEATS; PROBABILITY; SAMPLING; TANKS (CONTAINERS);

TESTING;

EGG PRODUCTION; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ERROR ANALYSIS; FISH; POLLUTION EFFECT; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; TESTING METHOD;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CASE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOTOXICITY; EGG PRODUCTION; FEMALE; FISH; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FUNDULIDAE; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; OVUM; REPRODUCTION; SAMPLE SIZE; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

FUNDULUS; FUNDULUS HETEROCLITUS;

EID: 75449100368     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: 15528618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/09-032.1     Document Type: Article

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