Toxicology

Last Updated: March 25, 2014

i) Published Research:

Bishop, C. A., Brown, G. P., Brooks, R. J., Lean, D. R. S. & J. H. Carey, 1994. Organochloride contaminant concentrations in eggs and their relationship to body size, and clutch characteristics of the female common Snapping Turtle (Chelydra serpentina serpentina) in Lake Ontario, Canada. Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology , 27(1): 82-87.

Bishop, C. A., Ng, P., Norstrom, R. J., Brooks, R. J. & K. E. Pettit, 1996. Temporal and geographic variation of organochlorine residues in eggs of the Common Snapping turtle (Chelydra serpentina serpentina) (1981-1991) and comparisons to trends in the Herring Gull (Larus argentatus) in the Great Lakes basin in Ontario, Canada. Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 31: 512-524.

de Solla, S. R., Bishop, C. A., Van der Kraak, G. & R. J. Brooks, 1998. Impact of organochlorine contamination on levels of sex hormones and external morphology of common snapping turtles (Chelydra serpentina serpentina) in Ontario, Canada.Environmental Health Perspectives, 106: 253-260.

Struger, J., Elliott, J. E., Bishop, C. A., Obbard, M. E., Norstrom R. J., Weseloh, V. V., Simon, M. & P. Ng, 1993. Environmental contaminants in eggs of the common snapping turtle (Chelydra serpentina serpentina) from the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin of Ontario, Canada (1981-1984). International Assoc. for Great Lakes Research, (1993): 5091.