The effects of temperature and salinity on 17-α-ethynylestradiol uptake and its relationship to oxygen consumption in the model euryhaline teleost (Fundulus heteroclitus)

Aquatic Toxicology

Volumn 127, Issue , 2013, Pages 61-71

  Blewett, Tamzin ^a   MacLatchy, Deborah L ^b   Wood, Chris M ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ethynylestradiol; Killifish; Oxygen consumption; Salinity; Temperature

Indexed keywords

DISSOLVED OXYGEN; ETHINYLESTRADIOL; FRESH WATER; SEA WATER;

ACCLIMATION; BIOLOGICAL UPTAKE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ESTROGENIC COMPOUND; OXYGEN; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; SALINITY; SEAWATER; TELEOST; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BILE; CARCASS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DRINKING; EXPOSURE; FUNDULUS HETEROCLITUS; GALLBLADDER; GILL; INTESTINE; ISOTOPE LABELING; LIVER; MALE; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALINITY; SPLEEN; TELEOST; TEMPERATURE ACCLIMATIZATION; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; WATER ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; ETHINYL ESTRADIOL; FUNDULIDAE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; SALINITY; SEAWATER; TEMPERATURE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ANIMALIA; CYPRINODONTOIDEI; FUNDULUS HETEROCLITUS; TELEOSTEI;

EID: 84872171660     PISSN: 0166445X     EISSN: 18791514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aquatox.2012.04.009     Document Type: Article

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