An endocrine disruptor, bisphenol A, affects development in the protochordate Ciona intestinalis: Hatching rates and swimming behavior alter in a dose-dependent manner

TY - JOUR

T1 - An endocrine disruptor, bisphenol A, affects development in the protochordate Ciona intestinalis

T2 - Hatching rates and swimming behavior alter in a dose-dependent manner

AU - Matsushima, Ayami

AU - Ryan, Kerrianne

AU - Shimohigashi, Yasuyuki

AU - Meinertzhagen, Ian A.

N1 - Funding Information: The authors wish to thank Dr. D. Sephton and Ms. J. Keays, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Nova Scotia, for providing animals. The authors also thank Dr. Y. Satou, Kyoto University and the National BioResource Project Ciona intestinalis, for giving technical advice and providing animals. This research was supported by FY 2009 Researcher Exchange Program between the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada . This work was also supported in part by grants-in-aid from the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture in Japan to A.M. ( 20710053 ) and Y.S. ( 22221005 ) and by Discovery Grant 0000065 from NSERC (to IAM).

PY - 2013/2

Y1 - 2013/2

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U2 - 10.1016/j.envpol.2012.10.015

DO - 10.1016/j.envpol.2012.10.015

M3 - Article

C2 - 23207495

AN - SCOPUS:84870169429

SN - 0269-7491

VL - 173

SP - 257

EP - 263

JO - Environmental Pollution

JF - Environmental Pollution

ER -