Atrazine exposure impacts behavior and survivorship of neonatal turtles

Herpetologica

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 23-31

  Neuman Lee, Lorin A ^a,b   Janzen, Fredric J ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrazine; Endocrine disruptor; Graptemys; Reptiles; Turtles

Indexed keywords

ABNORMALITY; ATRAZINE; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; GROWTH RESPONSE; MORPHOLOGY; RIVER SYSTEM; RUNOFF; SANDBAR; SURVIVORSHIP; SWIMMING; TURTLE;

GRAPTEMYS; GRAPTEMYS OUACHITENSIS; GRAPTEMYS PSEUDOGEOGRAPHICA; REPTILIA; TESTUDINES;

EID: 79951596663     PISSN: 00180831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1655/HERPETOLOGICA-D-09-0003.1     Document Type: Article

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