Environmentally realistic exposure to the herbicide atrazine alters some sexually selected traits in male guppies

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Shenoy, Kausalya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATRAZINE; HERBICIDE;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COURTSHIP; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GUPPY; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; MALE; MATE CHOICE; MATING; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES HABITAT; WATER POLLUTANT; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECT; ENVIRONMENT; HISTOLOGY; PIGMENTATION; TIME;

ANIMALIA;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; ATRAZINE; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HERBICIDES; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; PIGMENTATION; POECILIA; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84856456745     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0030611     Document Type: Article

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