Toxic effects of PCB126 and TCDD on shortnose sturgeon and Atlantic sturgeon

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2324-2337

  Chambers, R Christopher ^a   Davis, Dawn D ^a   Habeck, Ehren A ^a   Roy, Nirmal K ^b   Wirgin, Isaac ^b  

^a NORTHEAST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Early life stage toxicities; Eye development; Hudson River; Larval survivorship; Morphometrics

Indexed keywords

2 ,3 ,7 ,8 TETRACHLORODIBENZO P DIOXINS; ARYL HYDROCARBON RECEPTOR; BONY FISH; CHEMICAL CONTAMINANTS; EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE; EYE DEVELOPMENT; HEAD SIZE; HUDSON RIVER; IN-SITU; LARVAL SURVIVORSHIP; MORPHOMETRICS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL 126; TOXIC EFFECT;

FISH; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS;

TOXICITY;

2,3,7,8 TETRACHLORODIBENZO PARA DIOXIN; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL 126; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; CHEMICAL POLLUTANT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; ECOTOXICOLOGY; EMBRYO; EYE; MORPHOMETRY; PCB; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SURVIVORSHIP; SYMPATRY; TCDD; TELEOST;

ACIPENSER BREVIROSTUM; ACIPENSER OXYRINCHUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); EYE DEVELOPMENT; ISOTOPE LABELING; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STURGEON; SURVIVAL RATE; TOXICITY TESTING; UNITED STATES; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISHES; LARVA; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; RIVERS; TETRACHLORODIBENZODIOXIN; TOXICITY TESTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

HUDSON ESTUARY; HUDSON RIVER; UNITED STATES;

ACIPENSER; ACIPENSER BREVIROSTRUM; ACIPENSER OXYRINCHUS; OSTEICHTHYES;

EID: 84866367485     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: 15528618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/etc.1953     Document Type: Article

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