Birth defects in wildlife: The role of environmental contaminants as inducers of reproductive and developmental dysfunction

Systems Biology in Reproductive Medicine

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 113-121

  Hamlin, Heather J ^a   Guillette Jr , Louis J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Birth defects; Environmental contaminants; Reproductive dysfunction; Wildlife

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL CHEMICAL; NITRATE; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE; TRIBUTYLTIN;

AGRICULTURE; ALLIGATOR; AMPHIBIA; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; BIRD; BIRTH DEFECT; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONGENITAL DISORDER; CONTAMINATION; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DISEASE SEVERITY; EGG SHELL; EYE DEVELOPMENT; FISH; GENITAL SYSTEM DISEASE; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; HATCHING; HINDLIMB; HUMAN; HYPOSPADIAS; LAKE; MAMMAL; MEDICAL PERSONNEL; MOLLUSC; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; ORGAN SIZE; PENIS; PHYSIOLOGY; POLLUTANT; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; REPTILE; REVIEW; SCIENTIST; TAIL; THYROID DISEASE; TOAD; VERTEBRATE; WILDLIFE;

ABNORMALITIES, DRUG-INDUCED; AMPHIBIANS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BIRDS; DDT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; FISHES; HUMANS; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; HYPOSPADIAS; MALE; MAMMALS; NITRATES; OVUM; PESTICIDES; REPRODUCTION; REPTILES; TRIALKYLTIN COMPOUNDS; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

EID: 77950824990     PISSN: 19396368     EISSN: 19396368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/19396360903244598     Document Type: Review

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