Short-term exposure to an endocrine disruptor affects behavioural consistency in male threespine stickleback

Aquatic Toxicology

Volumn 105, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 681-687

  Dzieweczynski, Teresa L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

17 Ethinyloestradiol (EE2); Aggression; Consistent individual differences; Courtship; Endocrine disruptors; Threespine stickleback

Indexed keywords

ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ETHINYLESTRADIOL;

AGGRESSION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CORRELATION; COURTSHIP; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ESTROGENIC COMPOUND; FISH; NESTING BEHAVIOR; POLLUTION EXPOSURE;

AGGRESSION; AQUATIC SPECIES; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; COURTSHIP; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS; MALE; NESTING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COURTSHIP; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ETHINYL ESTRADIOL; MALE; NESTING BEHAVIOR; SMEGMAMORPHA; TOXICITY TESTS, ACUTE; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

GASTEROSTEUS; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS;

EID: 80053438072     PISSN: 0166445X     EISSN: 18791514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aquatox.2011.09.010     Document Type: Article

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