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SUBMITTER: Dubansky B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5785368 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Dubansky Benjamin B Rice Charles D CD Barrois Lester F LF Galvez Fernando F
Archives of environmental contamination and toxicology 20170710 1
Following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, shorelines throughout the Barataria Basin of the northern Gulf of Mexico in Louisiana were heavily oiled for months with Macondo-252 oil, potentially impacting estuarine species. The Gulf killifish (Fundulus grandis) has been identified as a sentinel species for the study of site-specific effects of crude oil contamination on biological function. In November and December 2010, 4-5 months after the Macondo well was plugged and new oil was no longer spill ...[more]