Organochlorine pesticide residues in eggs and tissues of House Sparrow, Passer domesticus, from Tamil Nadu, India

Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 87, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 684-688

  Dhananjayan, V ^a   Muralidharan, S ^b   Ranapratap, S ^b  

^a INDIAN COUNCIL OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (India)

^b SÁLIM ALI CENTRE FOR ORNITHOLOGY AND NATURAL HISTORY   (India)

Author keywords

Eggs; Eggshell thickness; House sparrow; OCPs; Tissues

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS MONITORING; CRITICAL CONCENTRATION; CURRENT STATUS; CYCLODIENE INSECTICIDE; EGGS; EGGSHELL THICKNESS; HEXACHLOROCYCLOHEXANES; HOUSE SPARROWS; MEAN CONCENTRATIONS; OCPS; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE RESIDUES; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDES; TAMIL NADU;

ETHYLENE; HISTOLOGY; HOUSES; PESTICIDES;

TISSUE;

1,1 DICHLORO 2,2 BIS(4 CHLOROPHENYL)ETHYLENE; CHLORINATED HYDROCARBON; CHLORPHENOTANE; INSECTICIDE; LINDANE; PESTICIDE RESIDUE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INDIA; METHODOLOGY; OOCYTE; POLLUTANT; SPARROW;

ANIMALS; DDT; DICHLORODIPHENYL DICHLOROETHYLENE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; INDIA; INSECTICIDES; LINDANE; OVUM; PESTICIDE RESIDUES; SPARROWS;

PASSER DOMESTICUS;

EID: 82355175306     PISSN: 00074861     EISSN: 14320800     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00128-011-0414-9     Document Type: Article

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