| assessment of the health status of wild fish inhabiting a cotton basin heavily impacted by pesticides in benin (west africa). | to determine the impact of agricultural pesticides used in cotton cultivation on the health status of fish living in a beninese cotton basin, we compared the reproductive and hepatic systems of fish sampled from rivers located in both contaminated and pristine conditions. different types of biomarkers, including biometric indices (a condition factor k, a gonadosomatic index gsi, and a hepatosomatic index hsi), plasma levels of sex steroids (11-ketotestosterone 11-kt, testosterone t and estradiol ... | 2015 | 25433386 |