The fungicide chlorothalonil is nonlinearly associated with corticosterone levels, immunity, and mortality in amphibians

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 119, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1098-1103

  McMahon, Taegan A ^a   Halstead, Neal T ^a   Johnson, Steve ^b   Raffel, Thomas R ^a   Romansic, John M ^a   Crumrine, Patrick W ^c   Boughton, Raoul K ^d   Martin, Lynn B ^a   Rohr, Jason R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c ROWAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d ARCHBOLD BIOLOGICAL STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Disease; Endocrine disruption; Immunity; Mortality; Pesticide; Toxicology

Indexed keywords

CHLOROTHALONIL; CORTICOSTERONE;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYLA CINEREA; HYLA SQUIRELLA; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; LIVER; MESOCOSM; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; OSTEOPILUS SEPTENTRIONALIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANA SPHENOCEPHALA; SQUIRREL; SURVIVAL; TADPOLE;

AMPHIBIANS; ANIMALS; CORTICOSTERONE; FUNGICIDES, INDUSTRIAL; IMMUNITY; LIVER; MORTALITY; NITRILES; RANA PIPIENS; RANIDAE; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

AMPHIBIA; HYLA CINEREA; HYLA SQUIRELLA; OSTEOPILUS; OSTEOPILUS SEPTENTRIONALIS; RANA SPHENOCEPHALA;

EID: 79961094179     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1002956     Document Type: Article

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