Alligator, American

Alligator, American (Alligator mississippiensis) Anaconda (Eunectes murinus)... 

Vonier PM, Crain DA, McLachlan JA, et al. 1996. Interaction of environmental chemicals with the estrogen and progesterone receptors from the oviduct of the American alligator. Environ Health Perspect 104(12) 1318-1322. 

Heinz, G.H., Percival, H.F., and Jennings, M.L. (1991). Contaminants in American alligator eggs from Lake Apopka, Lake Griffin, and Lake Okeechobee, Florida. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 16, 277-285. 

Matter, J.M., McMurry, C.S., and Anthony, A.B. et al. (1998). Development and implementation of endocrine biomarkers of exposure and effects in American alligators (Alligator mississippiensis). Chemosphere 37, 1905-1914. 

Burger J, Gochfeld M, Rooney AA, Orlando EF, Woodward AR, Guillette Jr LJ. 2000a. Metals and metalloids in tissues of American alligators in three Florida lakes. Arch Environ Contam Toxicol 38 501-508. 

Delany M, Bell J, Sundlof S. 1988. Concentrations of contaminants in muscle of the American alligator in Florida. J Wildl Dis 24 62-66. 

Heaton-Jones TG, Homer BE, Heaton-Jones DL, Sundlof SF. 1997. Mercury distribution in American aUigators Alligator mississippiensis) in Florida. J Zoo Wildl Med 28 62-70. 

American alligator, Alligatormississippiensis, eggs (less shell), Florida, 1984 4.9—9.2 FW 54... 

American HAigztots, Alligator mississippiensis. Animal Behaviour 39,398-399. 

Weldon, P. J., Swenson, D. J., Olson, J. K., and Brinkmeier, W. G. (1990). The American alligator detects food chemicals in aquatic and terrestrial environments. Ethology 85, 191-198. 

Richey, L.J., Carbonneau, D.A., Schoeb, T.R., Taylor, S.K., Woodward, A.R., and Clemmons, R. 2001. Potential toxicity of cyanobacteria to American alligators Alligator mississippiemis). Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. http //myfwc.com/gators/research/griffin.htm. 

Cobb GP, Wood PD, O Quinn M. 1997. Polychlorinated biphenyls in eggs and chorioallantoic membranes of American alligators (alligator mississippiensis) from coastal South Carolina. Environ Toxicol Chem 16(7) 1456-1462. 

Fromtling RA, Kosanke SD, Jensen JM, Bulmer GS. Fatal Beauveria bassiana infection in a captive American alligator. J Am Vet Med Assoc 175 934-936, 1979. 

LlinAs, R., and Nicholson, C., 1969, Electrophysiological analysis of alligator cerebellar cortex a study on dendritic spikes, in Neurobiology of Cerebellar Evolution and Development (R. LlinAs, ed.), pp. 431-465, Chicago American Medical Assoc. 

Westergaard, B. and Ferguson, M.W.J. (1990) Development of the dentition in Alligator mississippiensis upper jaw dental and craniofacial development in embryos, hatchlings, and young juveniles, with a comparison to lower jaw development , American Journal of Anatomy, 187, 393-421. 

The similarities between human and wildUfe hormones were also demonstrated in another study. The American alligator and human estrogen receptors were incubated... 

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