A method for the determination of genetic sex in the fathead minnow, pimephales promelas, to support testing of endocrine-active chemicals

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 3090-3095

  Olmstead, Allen W ^a   Villeneuve, Daniel L ^a   Ankley, Gerald T ^a   Cavallin, Jenna E ^a   Lindberg Livingston, Annelie ^a   Wehmas, Leah C ^a   Degitz, Sigmund J ^a  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CHEMICALS; AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISMS; ECOTOXICOLOGICAL MODEL; FATHEAD MINNOW; GENETIC MAKE-UP; GENOTYPING; LABORATORY STUDIES; PIMEPHALES PROMELAS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION METHODS; RECOMBINATION EVENTS; SEX CHROMOSOMES; SEX DETERMINATION; STATISTICAL POWER; SUPPORT TESTING; TOXICITY ASSAYS; TOXICOLOGICAL TESTING;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES; GENE EXPRESSION;

POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

CHROMOSOME; CYPRINID; ECOTOXICOLOGY; GENETIC MARKER; LABORATORY METHOD; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM; RECOMBINATION; SECONDARY SEXUAL CHARACTERISTICS; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX REVERSAL; TOXICITY TEST;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; FEMALE; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOTYPE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PIMEPHALES PROMELAS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX LINKAGE; SPAWNING;

AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM ANALYSIS; ANIMALS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CYPRINIDAE; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SEX DETERMINATION ANALYSIS; TOXICITY TESTS;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; AVES; CYPRINIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; PIMEPHALES PROMELAS; REPTILIA;

EID: 79953240279     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es103327r     Document Type: Article

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