Screening for potential effects of endocrine-disrupting chemicals in peri-urban creeks and rivers in Melbourne, Australia using mosquitofish and recombinant receptor-reporter gene assays

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1831-1841

  Chinathamby, Kavitha ^a,b   Allinson, Mayumi ^b   Shiraishi, Fujio ^c   Lopata, Andreas L ^a,d   Nugegoda, Dayanthi ^a,b   Pettigrove, Vincent ^b,e   Allinson, Graeme ^b,f  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^d JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e MELBOURNE WATER CORPORATION   (Australia)

^f DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Gonopodium; Male mosquitofish; Two hybrid yeast recombinant receptor reporter gene assay activity

Indexed keywords

BIOASSAY; BIOMARKER; CORRELATION; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ESTROGENIC COMPOUND; FISH; GENE; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WATER;

AUSTRALIA; MELBOURNE; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA];

GAMBUSIA AFFINIS; GAMBUSIA HOLBROOKI;

EID: 84874340214     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: 16147499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-012-1188-2     Document Type: Article

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