The Implications of Endocrine Dysfunction for Fish

There is now very clear evidence that a wide range of anthropogenic chemicals can be considered as potential endocrine disrupters in fish (Table 1), but it is rather less clear whether they cause actual endocrine disruption in intact animals 

Environmentally Induced Endocrine Abnormalities in Eish Heavy metals 

Arsenic, cadmium, chromium, copper, iron, lead, mercury, tin, zinc Organochlorine pesticides 

Aldrin, chlordecone (Kepone), 2,4-D, DDT and metabolites, dieldrin, endosulfan, endrin, f]- and y-HCH (lindane), linuron, methoxychlor, mirex 

Chlorfenvinphos, cythion, diazinon, elsan, fenitrothion, fenthion, malathion, methyl parathion, mevinphos, monocrotophos, parathion, quinalphos, temephos, TEPA, tetrachlorvinphos 

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