Atrazine reduces reproduction in Japanese medaka (Oryzias latipes)

Aquatic Toxicology

Volumn 154, Issue , 2014, Pages 230-239

  Papoulias, Diana M ^a   Tillitt, Donald E ^a   Talykina, Melaniya G ^b   Whyte, Jeffrey J ^a,c   Richter, Catherine A ^a  

^a Jackson Field Research Station   (United States)

^b PAPANIN INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGY OF INLAND WATERS   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Egg production; Genotoxicity; Herbicides

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; ATRAZINE; ESTRADIOL; SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ATRAZINE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EGG PRODUCTION; FISH; GENOTOXICITY;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG PRODUCTION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESTROGEN SYNTHESIS; FEMALE; GENOTOXICITY; GERM CELL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORYZIAS LATIPES; OVARY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE SYNTHESIS;

UNITED STATES;

EGG PRODUCTION; GENOTOXICITY; HERBICIDES;

ANIMALS; ATRAZINE; FEMALE; GERM CELLS; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; MALE; ORYZIAS; OVIPOSITION; REPRODUCTION; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84902163935     PISSN: 0166445X     EISSN: 18791514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aquatox.2014.05.022     Document Type: Article

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