A review of the evidence for endocrine disrupting effects of current-use chemicals on wildlife populations

P Matthiessen, JR Wheeler, L Weltje - Critical reviews in toxicology, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
This review critically examines the data on claimed endocrine-mediated adverse effects of
chemicals on wildlife populations. It focuses on the effects of current-use chemicals, and …

Thinking outside the box: Assessing endocrine disruption in aquatic life

SM Brander - … water quality: Pollution assessment, analysis, and …, 2013 - books.google.com
Exposures to environmental concentrations of endocrine disrupting compounds are now a
known threat to both human and ecological health [1, 2]. A large body of work has …

Applied fish bioenergetics

JW Brownscombe, MJ Lawrence, D Deslauriers… - Fish Physiology, 2022 - Elsevier
Energy is a fundamental currency of life that can be quantified in organisms to understand
how environmental conditions and anthropogenic stressors affect individuals, scaling up to …

Relationship between DNA damage in sperm after ex vivo exposure and abnormal embryo development in the progeny of the three-spined stickleback

R Santos, M Palos-Ladeiro, A Besnard… - Reproductive …, 2013 - Elsevier
Many xenobiotics released in the aquatic environment exhibit a genotoxic potential toward
organisms. Long term exposure to such compounds is expected to lead to multigenerational …

From 'omics to otoliths: responses of an estuarine fish to endocrine disrupting compounds across biological scales

SM Brander, RE Connon, G He, JA Hobbs… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) cause physiological abnormalities and population
decline in fishes. However, few studies have linked environmental EDC exposures with …

The stress response of three-spined sticklebacks is modified in proportion to effluent exposure downstream of wastewater treatment works

TG Pottinger, PA Henrys, RJ Williams, P Matthiessen - Aquatic toxicology, 2013 - Elsevier
This study was conducted to investigate whether exposure to wastewater treatment works
(WWTW) effluent affects the adaptive stress axis of fish resident within the receiving water …

What works? The influence of changing wastewater treatment type, including tertiary granular activated charcoal, on downstream macroinvertebrate biodiversity over …

AC Johnson, MD Jürgens, FK Edwards… - Environmental …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The present study reviewed the impacts of wastewater on macroinvertebrates over 4
decades in a United Kingdom lowland river. This involved examining changes in chemicals …

Induction of gene responses in St. Lawrence River northern pike (Esox lucius) environmentally exposed to perfluorinated compounds

M Houde, M Douville, SP Despatie, AO De Silva… - Chemosphere, 2013 - Elsevier
Municipal waste water effluents (MWWEs) are important sources of chemical contamination
for aquatic environments. This study investigated the presence and effects of perfluorinated …

The ninespine stickleback as a model organism in arctic ecotoxicology

FA Von Hippel, EJ Trammell, J Merilä… - Evolutionary Ecology …, 2016 - hub.hku.hk
Background: The Arctic is subject to atmospheric deposition of persistent organic pollutants
through the process of global distillation. It also contains thousands of sites with local …

Characterization of a genotoxicity biomarker in three‐spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus L.): Biotic variability and integration in a battery of biomarkers for …

S Raphael, J Aude, P Olivier, PL Mélissa… - Environmental …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
As a large array of hazardous substances exhibiting genotoxicity are discharged into surface
water, this work aimed at assessing the relevance of adding a genotoxicity biomarker in a …