Effects of chronic exposures to the herbicides atrazine and glyphosate to larvae of the threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus)

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Volumn 89, Issue , 2013, Pages 174-181

  Le Mer, Charline ^a   Roy, Robert L ^b   Pellerin, Jocelyne ^a   Couillard, Catherine M ^b   Maltais, Domynick ^b  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE LA MER DE RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

^b FISHERIES AND OCEANS CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Atrazine; ELISA; Gasterosteus aculeatus; Glyphosate; Larval bioassay; Ovotestis; Spiggin; Vitellogenin

Indexed keywords

ACETONE; ANDROSTANOLONE; ATRAZINE; ESTROGEN; ETHINYLESTRADIOL; GLYPHOSATE; HERBICIDE; SEA WATER; VITELLOGENIN;

ANDROGEN; ATRAZINE; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOMARKER; COASTAL ZONE; ESTROGENIC COMPOUND; FINFISH; GLYPHOSATE; GROWTH RESPONSE; HISTOLOGY; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; SURVIVAL; TOXICITY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; COASTAL WATERS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS; HATCHING; INCUBATION TIME; LARVA; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; SEX DETERMINATION; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER POLLUTION; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; ATRAZINE; BODY SIZE; CANADA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FISH PROTEINS; GLYCINE; GONADS; HERBICIDES; MALE; SEX RATIO; SMEGMAMORPHA; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; VITELLOGENINS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

GASTEROSTEUS; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS;

EID: 84873104522     PISSN: 01476513     EISSN: 10902414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2012.11.027     Document Type: Article

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