Age-related mercury contamination and relationship with luteinizing hormone in a long-lived antarctic bird

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Tartu, Sabrina ^a   Bustamante, Paco ^b   Goutte, Aurélie ^a   Cherel, Yves ^a   Weimerskirch, Henri ^a   Bustnes, Jan Ove ^c   Chastel, Olivier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LA ROCHELLE   (France)

^b UMR 7266 CNRS Université de La Rochelle   (France)

^c NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON 13; DELTA C 13; DELTA N 15; GONADORELIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MERCURY; NITROGEN 15; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; POLLUTANT;

AGE; ANIMAL CELL; ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BIRD; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ECOLOGICAL NICHE; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; MALE; MERCURIALISM; NONHUMAN; PAGODROMA NIVEA; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; AGING; ANIMAL; BLOOD; DRUG EFFECTS; METABOLISM; POLLUTANT; TOXICITY;

AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANIMALS; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; BIRDS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; MERCURY; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84904994911     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0103642     Document Type: Article

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