The effects of the urea-based herbicide linuron on reproductive endpoints in the fathead minnow (Pimephales promelas)

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - C Toxicology and Pharmacology

Volumn 157, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 24-32

  Marlatt, Vicki L ^a   Lo, Bonnie P ^a   Ornostay, Anna ^b   Hogan, Natacha S ^c   Kennedy, Chris J ^d   Elphick, James R ^a   Martyniuk, Christopher J ^b  

^a Nautilus Environmental   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^d SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anti androgen; Endocrine disruption; Linuron; Steroidogenic genes; Vitellogenin

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTANOLONE; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; LINURON; MESSENGER RNA; VITELLOGENIN; WATER;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; FEMALE; GENE; HATCHING; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PIMEPHALES PROMELAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEROIDOGENESIS; SURVIVAL; VERTEBRATE;

EID: 84870272276     PISSN: 15320456     EISSN: 18781659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpc.2012.09.001     Document Type: Article

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