Environmental influence on yolk steroids in American alligators (Alligator mississippiensis)

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 736-741

  Hamlin, Heather J ^a,d   Lowers, Russell H ^b   Albergotti, Lori C ^a   McCoy, Michael W ^c   Mutz, Jessica ^a   Guillette Jr , Louis J ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b KENNEDY SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^d MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alligators; Environment; Environmental contaminants; Estradiol; Progesterone; Steroid hormones; Testosterone; Yolk steroids

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; PROGESTERONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ALLIGATOR; ARTICLE; EGG YOLK; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HORMONE DETERMINATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ABNORMALITIES, DRUG-INDUCED; ALLIGATORS AND CROCODILES; ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; EGG YOLK; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; ESTRADIOL; FLORIDA; PROGESTERONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ALLIGATOR; ALLIGATOR MISSISSIPPIENSIS; ALLIGATORINAE;

EID: 77958526018     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.110.085142     Document Type: Article

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