Altered sex hormone concentrations and gonadal mRNA expression levels of activin signaling factors in hatchling alligators from a contaminated Florida lake

Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological Genetics and Physiology

Volumn 313 A, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 218-230

  Moore, Brandon C ^a   Kohno, Satomi ^a   Cook, Robert W ^b   Alvers, Ashley L ^c   Hamlin, Heather J ^a   Woodruff, Teresa K ^b   Guillette, Louis J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; AROMATASE; ESTRADIOL; FOLLISTATIN; FOLLITROPIN; INHIBIN; INHIBIN BETA A SUBUNIT; MESSENGER RNA; PESTICIDE; TESTOSTERONE;

ALLIGATOR; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; METABOLISM; NEWBORN; OVARY; OVARY FOLLICLE; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UNITED STATES;

ACTIVINS; ALLIGATORS AND CROCODILES; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AROMATASE; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; FLORIDA; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; FOLLISTATIN; INHIBIN-BETA SUBUNITS; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVARY; PESTICIDES; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TESTOSTERONE;

ALLIGATOR; ALLIGATORINAE; ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 77951027748     PISSN: 19325223     EISSN: 19325231     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jez.595     Document Type: Article

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