Short-term exposure to a synthetic estrogen disrupts mating dynamics in a pipefish

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 800-807

  Partridge, Charlyn ^a   Boettcher, Anne ^b   Jones, Adam G ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

17 ethinylestradiol; EE2; Endocrine disruptors; Pipefish; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ESTROGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL TRAIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FISH; MALE; MATE CHOICE; MATING; MATING SUCCESS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PIPEFISH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL SELECTION;

ANIMALS; EFFICIENCY; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ESTRADIOL CONGENERS; ETHINYL ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; FISHES; GENDER IDENTITY; MALE; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; TIME FACTORS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 78349312002     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2010.08.002     Document Type: Article

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