Environmental concentrations of an androgenic progestin disrupts the seasonal breeding cycle in male three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus)

Aquatic Toxicology

Volumn 147, Issue , 2014, Pages 84-91

  Svensson, Johan ^a   Fick, Jerker ^b   Brandt, Ingvar ^a   Brunström, Björn ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Androgen; Levonorgestrel; Progestins; Reproductive cycle; Three spined stickleback

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; GLUE PROTEIN; LEVONORGESTREL; SPIGGIN; SURFACE WATER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANDROGEN; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FINFISH; GENE; HISTOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; REPRODUCTIVE CYCLE; REPRODUCTIVE STATUS; STEROID;

ANDROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HISTOLOGY; KIDNEY; LIGHT; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REPRODUCTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SPERMATOGENESIS; WATER POLLUTION;

ANDROGEN; LEVONORGESTREL; PROGESTINS; REPRODUCTIVE CYCLE; THREE-SPINED STICKLEBACK;

ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; LEVONORGESTREL; MALE; REPRODUCTION; SEASONS; SMEGMAMORPHA; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84891109771     PISSN: 0166445X     EISSN: 18791514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aquatox.2013.12.013     Document Type: Article

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