Impacts of early life exposure to estrogen on subsequent breeding behavior and reproductive success in Zebrafish

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 6481-6487

  Coe, Tobias S ^a   Söffker, Marta K ^a   Filby, Amy L ^a   Hodgson, David ^a   Tyler, Charles R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOICE EXPERIMENTS; DANIO RERIO; DOSING LEVEL; EARLY LIFE; ENVIRONMENTAL ESTROGENS; ETHINYLESTRADIOL; FISH POPULATIONS; KEY DETERMINANTS; POST-FERTILIZATION; POTENTIAL POPULATION; REPRODUCTIVE DEVELOPMENT; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; TRANSIENT EXPOSURE; ZEBRAFISH;

FISHERIES; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ECOLOGY;

ETHINYLESTRADIOL;

CYPRINID; DEMOGRAPHY; DOMINANCE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; ESTROGENIC COMPOUND; IDENTIFICATION KEY; LIFE CYCLE; MATE CHOICE; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPAWNING;

AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GONAD; MALE; MATE CHOICE; MATING; NONHUMAN; PARENTHOOD; PHENOTYPE; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPAWNING; ZEBRA FISH;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BREEDING; CELL SURVIVAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ESTROGENS; ETHINYL ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MALE; OVUM; REPRODUCTION; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; ZEBRAFISH;

DANIO RERIO;

EID: 77956513448     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es101185b     Document Type: Article

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