| chemical contaminants, health indicators, and reproductive biomarker responses in fish from the colorado river and its tributaries. | common carp (cyprinus carpio), black bass (micropterus spp.), and channel catfish (ictalurus punctatus) were collected from 14 sites in the colorado river basin (crb) to document spatial trends in accumulative contaminants, health indicators, and reproductive biomarkers. organochlorine residues, 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin-like activity (tcdd-eq), and elemental contaminants were measured in composite samples of whole fish, grouped by species and gender, from each site. selenium (se) and ... | 2007 | 17418376 |
| polybrominated diphenyl ether metabolism in field collected fish from the gila river, arizona, usa--levels, possible sources, and patterns. | polybrominated diphenyl ethers (pbdes) were determined in fish collected from the gila river, arizona, a tributary of the colorado river in the lower part of the colorado river basin. fish samples were collected at sites on the gila river downstream from hayden, phoenix, and arlington, arizona in late summer 2003. the gila river is ephemeral upstream of the phoenix urban area due to dams and irrigation projects and has limited perennial flow downstream of phoenix due to wastewater and irrigation ... | 2013 | 22939514 |
| parasites of native and nonnative fishes of the little colorado river, grand canyon, arizona. | a 2-yr, seasonal, parasitological study of 1,435 fish, belonging to 4 species of native fishes and 7 species of nonnative fishes from the lower little colorado river (lcr) and tributary creeks, grand canyon, arizona, yielded 17 species of parasites. these comprised 1 myxozoan (henneguya exilis), 2 copepods (ergasilus arthrosis and lernaea cyprinacea), 1 acarine (oribatida gen. sp.), 1 piscicolid leech (myzobdella lugubris), 4 monogeneans (gyrodactylus hoffmani, gyrodactylus sp., dactylogyrus ext ... | 2004 | 15562604 |
| parasites of fishes in the colorado river and selected tributaries in grand canyon, arizona. | abstract as part of the endangered humpback chub (hbc) gila cypha adaptive management program, a parasite survey was conducted from 28 june - 17 july 2006 in 8 tributaries and 7 adjacent sections of the main stem colorado river (cor). in total 717 fish were caught, including 24 hbc, field necropsies yielded 19 parasite species, 5 of which (achtheres sp., kathlaniidae gen. sp., caryophyllaidae gen. sp., myxidium sp., and octomacrum sp.) are new records for the grand canyon. spearman's correlation ... | 2011 | 21793700 |