Life imprints: Living in a contaminated world

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 119, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1208-1210

  Crews, David ^a   Gore, Andrea C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Endocrine disrupting chemicals; Epigenetics; Evolutionary biology; Heritable; Proximate effect; Ultimate effect

Indexed keywords

CHLORPHENOTANE; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ESTRADIOL; VINCLOZOLIN;

BREEDING; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; DEVELOPMENT; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; EPIGENETICS; EVOLUTION; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HEREDITY; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; LIFE CYCLE; LIFE HISTORY; NONHUMAN; NOTE; POLLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ANIMALS; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; MALE; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 80052315558     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1103451     Document Type: Note

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