Interactions between methylmercury and selenomethionine injected into mallard eggs

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 579-584

  Klimstra, Jon D ^a   Yee, Julie L ^b   Heinz, Gary H ^c   Hoffman, David J ^c   Stebbins, Katherine R ^c  

^a U S FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c PATUXENT WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Egg injections; Embryo mortality; Interactions; Methylmercury; Selenomethionine; Teratogenic effects

Indexed keywords

EMBRYO MORTALITY; EQUIVALENT DOSE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION MODELS; METHYL MERCURY; SELENOMETHIONINE; TERATOGENIC EFFECT; UNDERLYING MECHANISM; WET WEIGHT;

AMINO ACIDS; BEAM PLASMA INTERACTIONS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; LOGISTICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS;

MERCURY COMPOUNDS;

METHYLMERCURY; SELENOMETHIONINE;

CHEMICAL POLLUTANT; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; EGG; EMBRYO; FIELD SURVEY; LABORATORY METHOD; METHYLMERCURY; MORTALITY; PROBABILITY; SEABIRD; TOXICITY TEST;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG; EMBRYO; EMBRYO MORTALITY; EMBRYOTOXICITY; HATCHING; INJECTION; LABORATORY; MALLARD EGG; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOTHER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE; TERATOGENICITY;

ANIMALS; DRUG INTERACTIONS; DUCKS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; OVUM; SELENOMETHIONINE;

ANAS PLATYRHYNCHOS;

EID: 84857501535     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: 15528618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/etc.1708     Document Type: Article

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