An Investigation of Pulp Mill Effluents and Their Wood Feedstocks as Potential Neuroendocrine Disruptors of the Fish Reproductive Axis

Common observations of reduced gonad size and spawning inhibition in wild and laboratory raised fish exposed to pulp mill effluents indicate that reproductive neuroendocrine signalling pathways may be upset. This thesis supported the neuroendocrine disruption of reproduction hypothesis by identifyin...

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Main Author: Waye, Andrew
Other Authors: Trudeau, Vance
Language:en
Published: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10393/32145
http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-2829