Ecological and evolutionary applications for environmental sex reversal of fish

Quarterly Review of Biology

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 23-44

  Senior, Alistair McNair ^a,b   Lokman, P Mark ^a   Closs, Gerard P ^a   Nakagawa, Shinichi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biological control; Endocrine disrupting chemicals; Hormones; Sex determination; Sex reversal; Teleosts

Indexed keywords

PISCES; TELEOSTEI;

WATER POLLUTANT;

ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECTS; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FISH; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESS; WATER POLLUTANT;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; FISHES; GENOTYPE; MALE; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; SEX CHROMOSOMES; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESSES; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84922813448     PISSN: 00335770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/679762     Document Type: Article

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