Contaminant Residues in Snapping Turtle (Chelydra s. serpentina) Eggs from the Great Lakes–St. Lawrence River Basin (1999 to 2000)

Sexually dimorphic morphology of hatchli

Sexually dimorphic morphology of hatchling snapping turtles (Chelydra serpentina) from contaminated and reference sites in the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River basin, North America

✍ Shane R. de Solla; Christine A. Bishop; Ronald J. Brooks 📂 Article 📅 2002 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 219 KB

Some organochlorine pesticides and industrial chemicals may alter sexually dimorphic traits through endocrine disruption. Therefore, we examined a sexually dimorphic trait, precloacal length, of hatchling snapping turtles (Chelydra serpentina) incubated from 31 clutches from a heavily contaminated s