Endocrine Disruption and Reptiles: Using the Unique Attributes of Temperature- Dependent Sex Determination to Assess Impacts

Endocrine Disrupters: Hazard Testing and Assessment Methods

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 245-271

  Kohno, Satomi ^a   Guillette, Louis J ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

American alligator; Embryonic development; Endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs); Model archosaurian species; Nonmammalian amniotes; Reptiles; Sex reversal; Temperature dependent sex determination (TSD)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886166251     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118355961.ch9     Document Type: Chapter

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