Endocrine disruption in the sub Antarctic fish Patagonotothen tessellata (Perciformes, Notothenidae) from Beagle Channel associated to anthropogenic impact

• Published in: Marine Environmental Research
• Main Authors: Ferreira, María Florencia, Lo Nostro, Fabiana Laura, Fernandez, Daniel Alfredo, Genovese, Griselda
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier
• Subjects: ANTHROPOGENIC ACTIVITY; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTION; NOTOTHENIOID FISH; SEX STEROIDS; SUB ANTARCTICA; VITELLOGENIN GENE EXPRESSION; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.6; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Ferreira; Pacific; The Antarctic; Ushuaia; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/160454

Situated in the sub-Antarctic region, Beagle Channel represents a unique marine ecosystem due to the connection between the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans, and its proximity to the Antarctic Peninsula. Ushuaia city, the biggest settlement on the channel, exerts an increasing anthropogenic pressure...