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1 9 Ackerman, D. 1991. The moon by whale light: and other adventures among bats, penguins, crocodilians, and whales. Random House, New York, New York, USA. 249pp.
2 18 Adams, S. E., M. H. Smith, and R. Baccus. 1980. Biochemical variation in the American alligator. Herpetologica 36:289–296.
3 775 Barnett, J. D., P. T. Cardeilhac, B. Barr, W. Wolff, and O. L. Bass. 1999. Differences between captive-raised and wild-caught Everglades National Park alligators in serum chemistry values, serum protein electrophoresis, thyroid hormone levels, and complete blood counts. Proceedings of the International Association of Aquatic Animal Medicine 30:136–139, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
4 774 Barnett, J. D., P. T. Cardeilhac, B. Barr, W. Wolff, O. L. Bass, and D. M. Fleming. 1998. Utilization of thyroid hormone levels to determine starvation in alligators from the Everglades National Park. Proceedings of the International Association of Aquatic Animal Medicine 29:52–56, San Diego, California, USA.
5 917 Beltz, E. 1996. Herp news from around the world: warning, nudity and sex below. Vivarium 7(4):7.
6 9096 Bermudez, D. S. 2008. Thyroid-gonad axis of the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis): an examination of physiological and morphological endpoints. Dissertation, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 135pp.
7 9401 Bermudez, D. S., J. P. Skotko, Y. Ohta, A. S. P. Boggs, T. Iguchi, and L. J. Guillette, Jr. 2011. Sex steroid and thyroid hormone receptor expressions in the thyroid of the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) during different life stages. Journal of Morphology 272:698−703.
8 7532 Bermudez, D. S., M. R. Milnes, T. A. Bryan, M. P. Gunderson, C. Tubbs, A. R. Woodward, and L. J. Guillette, Jr. 2005. Seasonal variation in plasma thyroxine concentrations in juvenile alligators (Alligator mississippiensis) from three Florida lakes. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology–Part A, Molecular and Integrative Physiology 141:8–14.
9 9922 Boggs, A. S. P, R.l H. Lowers, J. A. Cloy-McCoy, and L. J. Guillette, Jr. 2013. Organizational changes to thyroid regulation in Alligator mississippiensis: evidence for predictive adaptive responses. PloS ONE 8(1):e55515.
10 10368 Boggs, A. S. P. 2011. Effects of perchlorate on alligator development at Kennedy Space Center. Dissertation, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
11 9593 Boggs, A. S. P. 2011. Organizational changes to thyroid regulation: evidence for predictive adaptive responses in Alligator mississipiensis. Dissertation, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 142pp.
12 9696 Boggs, A. S. P., H. J. Hamlin, R. H. Lowers, and L. J. Guillette, Jr. 2011. Seasonal variation in plasma thyroid hormone concentrations in coastal versus inland populations of juvenile American alligators (Alligator mississippiensis): influence of plasma iodide concentrations. General and Comparative Endocrinology 174:362–369.
13 8756 Bonnan, M. F., J. O. Farlow, and S. L. Masters. 2008. Using linear and geometric morphometrics to detect intraspecific variability and sexual dimorphism in femoral shape in Alligator mississippiensis and its implications for sexing fossil archosaurs. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28:422–431.
14 9092 Bowden, J.A. 2009. Novel analytical strategies for the characterization of steroids and endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs) in biological and environmental samples. Dissertation, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 207pp.
15 1162 Brisbin, I. L., Jr., C. H. Jagoe, K. F. Gaines, and J. C. Gariboldi. 1998. Environmental contaminants as concerns for the conservation biology of crocodilians. Pages 155–165 in Crocodiles: Proceedings of the 14th Working Meeting of the Crocodile Specialist Group, IUCN—The World Conservation Union, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, United Kingdom.
16 6470 Brown, D. R., M. F. Nogueira, T. R. Schoeb, K. A. Vliet, R. A. Bennett, G. W. Pye, and E. R. Jacobson. 2001. Pathology of experimental mycoplasmosis in American alligators. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 37:671–679.
17 8399 Bryan, T. A. 2005. Morphological and constituent analyses of American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) eggshells from contaminated and reference lakes. M.S. Thesis, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 45pp.
18 1213 Buhi, W. C., I. M. Alvarez, M. Binelli, E. S. Walworth, and L. J. Guillette, Jr. 1999. Identification and characterization of proteins synthesized de novo and secreted by the reproductive tract of the American alligator, Alligator mississippiensis. Journal of Reproduction and Fertility 115:201–213.
19 1365 Cardeilhac, P. T., D. L. Winternitz, J. D. Barnett, K. O. Foster, E. Froelich, and J. D. Ashley. 1998. Declining reproductive potential of the alligator population on Lake Griffin in central Florida. Proceedings of the International Association of Aquatic Animal Medicine 29:30–36, San Diego, California, USA.
20 1557 Colbert, E. G., R. B. Cowles, and C. M. Bogert. 1946. Temperature tolerances in the American alligator and their bearing on the habits, evolution, and extinction of dinosaurs. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 86:329–373.
21 1584 Congdon, J. D., and J. W. Gibbons. 1989. Posthatching yolk reserves in hatchling American alligators. Herpetologica 45:305–309.
22 1629 Cox, C., and L. J. Guillette, Jr. 1993. Localization of insulin-like growth factor-I-like immunoreactivity in the reproductive tract of the vitellogenic female American alligator, Alligator mississippiensis. Anatomical Record 236:635–640.
23 1658 Crain, D. A., A. A. Rooney, D. B. Pickford, and L. J. Guillette, Jr. 1995. Aromatose activity in contaminant-exposed American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) and red-eared slider (Trachemys scripta elegans) hatchlings. Page 98 (abstract) in Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, 8–13 August 1995, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina, USA.
24 1655 Crain, D. A., and L. J. Guillette, Jr. 1998. Reptiles as models of contaminant-induced endocrine disruption. Animal Reproductive Science 53:77–86.
25 1657 Crain, D. A., L. J. Guillette, Jr., A. A. Rooney, and D. B. Pickford. 1997. lterations in steroidogenesis in alligators (Alligator mississippiensis) exposed naturally and experimentally to environmental contaminants. Environmental Health Perspectives 105:528–533.
26 1656 Crain, D. A., L. J. Guillette, Jr., D. B. Pickford, H. F. Percival, and A. R. Woodward. 1998. Sex-steroid and thyroid hormone concentrations in juvenile alligators (Alligator mississippiensis) from contaminated and reference lakes in Florida, U.S.A. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 17:446–452.
27 1665 Crews, D., and J. P. Ross. 1998. Consequences of hormone disruption of sexual development for crocodilian conservation. Pages 174–190 in Crocodiles: Proceedings of the 14th Working Meeting of the Crocodile Specialist Group, IUCN—The World Conservation Union, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, United Kingdom.
28 1682 Cuchens, M. A., and L. W. Clem. 1979. Phylogeny of lymphocyte heterogeneity. IV. Evidence for T-like and B-like cells in reptiles. Developmental and Comparative Immunology 3:465–475.
29 6771 DeSena, R. R. 1985. Artificial breeding of the American alligator, Alligator mississippiensis: hormonal stimulation of ovarian steroid synthesis and the effects of stress upon plasma corticosterone levels. M.S. Thesis, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 198pp.
30 2129 Dunson, W. A., and M. E. Seidel. 1986. Salinity tolerance of estuarine and insular emydid turtles (Pseudemys nelsoni and Trachemys decussata). Journal of Herpetology 20:237–245.
31 2220 Ellis, T. M. 1981. Osmoregulation in the American alligator. M.S. Thesis, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, USA. 35pp.
32 2222 Ellis, T. M. 1984. Sodium balance in the American alligator. Journal of Experimental Zoology 231:325–329.
33 6931 Erickson, G. M., A. K. Lappin, T. Parker, and K. A. Vliet. 2004. Comparison of bite-force performance between long-term captive and wild American alligators (Alligator mississippiensis). Journal of Zoology 262:21–28.
34 2414 Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission. 1990. 1989–90 annual report. Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 40pp.
35 10880 Galligan, T. M., M. D. Hale, J. A. McCoy, D. S. Bermudez, L. J. Guillette, Jr., and B. B. Parrott. 2019. Assessing impacts of precocious steroid exposure on thyroid physiology and gene expression patterns in the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis). General and Comparative Endocrinology 271:61–72
36 2767 Gross, T. S., D. Giroux, D. A. Gross, and H. F. Percival. 1998. Lake Apopka revisited: an evaluation of environmental contaminants and associated reproductive anomalies in alligators. Pages 133–134 in S. H. Darling and H. H. Harper, editors. Integrating water resources and growth into the 21st century. Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Southeast Lakes Management Conference, 15–18 April 1998, Orlando, Florida, USA.
37 2769 Gross, T. S., R. Roberts, J. Montes de Oca, and J. Wiebe. 1996. Effects of environmental contaminants on endocrine function of adult and juvenile alligators. Pages 36–48 in K. G. Rice and H. F. Percival, editors. Effects of environmental contaminants on the demographics and reproduction of Lake Apopka's alligator and other taxa. Florida Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit Technical Report No. 53, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
38 2784 Guillette, L. J., D. A. Crain, D. B. Pickford, and A. A. Rooney. 1996. A survey of hormonal and morphological criteria in various Florida lakes. Pages 49–70 in K. G. Rice and H. F. Percival, editors. Effects of environmental contaminants on the demographics and reproduction of Lake Apopka's alligator and other taxa. Florida Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit Technical Report No. 53, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
39 2790 Guillette, L. J., G. R. Masson, A. R. Woodward, E. P. Bugarin, and L. C. Snyder. 1991. Page 67 (abstract) in Proceedings of the Joint Meeting of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles and the 39th Annual Meeting of the Herpetologists' League, 6–11 August 1991, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA.
40 2780 Guillette, L. J., Jr. 1992. Reproductive biology of the female alligator. Final Report to Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 67pp.
41 8370 Guillette, L. J., Jr. 2006. Endocrine disrupting contaminants--beyond the dogma. Environmental Health Perspectives 114(Supplement 1):9–12.
42 2795 Guillette, L. J., Jr., A. R. Woodward, D. A. Crain, D. B. Pickford, A. A. Rooney, and H. F. Percival. 1999. Plasma steroid concentrations and male phallus size in juvenile alligators from seven Florida lakes. General and Comparative Endocrinology 116:356–372.
43 2794 Guillette, L. J., Jr., A. R. Woodward, D. A. Crain, G. R. Masson, B. D. Palmer, M. C. Cox, Y. X. Qui, and E. F. Orlando. 1997. The reproductive cycle of the female alligator (Alligator mississippiensis). General and Comparative Endocrinology 108:87–101.
44 2796 Guillette, L. J., Jr., A. Woodward, G. Masson, T. S. Gross, and H. F. Percival. 1993. Reproductive cyclicity and fall vitellogenesis in the American alligator. Page 107 (abstract) in Abstracts of the Second World Congress of Herpetology, 29 December 1993–6 January 1994, Adelaide, South Australia.
45 2783 Guillette, L. J., Jr., and D. A. Crain, editors. 2000. Environmental endocrine disruptors: an evolutionary perspective. Taylor & Francis, New York, New York, USA. 355pp.
46 2793 Guillette, L. J., Jr., and M. C. A. Uribe. 2001. Alteraciones en el sistema reproductor de Alligator mississippiensis por contaminantes ambientales. Boletín de la Sociedad Herpetológica Mexicana 9(1):1–11.
47 6409 Guillette, L. J., Jr., and M. R. Milnes. 2001. Recent observations on the reproductive physiology and toxicology of crocodilians. Pages 199–213 in G. C. Grigg, F. Seebacher, and C. E. Frankin, editors. Crocodilian biology and evolution. Surrey Beatty & Sons, Chipping Norton, New South Wales, Australia.
48 7585 Guillette, L. J., Jr., and T. Iguchi. 2003. Contaminant-induced endocrine and reproductive alterations in reptiles. Pure and Applied Chemistry 75:2275–2286.
49 2786 Guillette, L. J., Jr., D. A. Crain, A. A. Rooney, and A. R. Woodward. 1997. Effect of acute stress on plasma concentrations of sex and stress hormones in juvenile alligators living in control and contaminated lakes. Journal of Herpetology 31:347–353.
50 2785 Guillette, L. J., Jr., D. A. Crain, A. A. Rooney, and D. B. Pickford. 1995. Organization versus activation: the role of endocrine-disrupting contaminants (EDCs) during embryonic development in wildlife. Environmental Health Perspectives 103(Supplement 7):157–164.
51 2792 Guillette, L. J., Jr., D. B. Pickford, D. A. Crain, A. A. Rooney, and H. F. Percival. 1996. Reduction in penis size and plasma testosterone concentrations in juvenile alligators living in a contaminated environment. General and Comparative Endocrinology 101:32–42.
52 2782 Guillette, L. J., Jr., J. W. Brock, A. A. Rooney, and A. R. Woodward. 1999. Serum concentrations of various environmental contaminants and their relationship to sex steroid concentrations and phallus size in juvenile American alligators. Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 36:447–455.
53 10106 Guillette, L. J., Jr., M. P. Gunderson, and G. A. LeBlanc. 2001. Alterations in sexually dimorphic biotransformation of testosterone in juvenile American alligators (Alligator mississippiensis) from contaminated lakes. Environmental Health Perspectives 109:1257–1264.
54 2787 Guillette, L. J., Jr., T. S. Gross, D. A. Gross, A. A. Rooney, and H. F. Percival. 1995. Gonadal steroidogenesis in vitro from juvenile alligators obtained from contaminated or control lakes. Environmental Health Perspectives 103(Supplement 4):31–36.
55 2789 Guillette, L. J., Jr., T. S. Gross, G. Masson, H. F. Percival, and J. M. Matter. 1993. Reproductive cyclicity and fall vitellogenesis in the American alligator. Pages 107–108 (abstract) in Abstracts of the Second World Congress of Herpetology, 29 December 1993–6 January 1994, Adelaide, South Australia.
56 2788 Guillette, L. J., Jr., T. S. Gross, G. R. Masson, J. M. Matter, H. F. Percival, and A. R. Woodward. 1994. Developmental abnormalities of the gonad and abnormal sex hormone concentrations in juvenile American alligators from contaminated and control lakes in Florida. Environmental Health Perspectives 102:680–688.
57 7617 Gunderson, M. P. 2005. Alterations in the hepatic biotransformation of steroids as a potential mechanism for contaminant induced changes in plasma testosterone concentrations in juvenile alligators (Alligator mississippiensis). Dissertation, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 181pp.
58 7531 Gunderson, M. P., D. S. Bermudez, T. A. Bryan, D. A. Crain, S. Degala, T. M. Edwards, S. A. E. Kools, M. R. Milnes, and L. J. Guillette, Jr. 2002. Temporal and spatial variation in plasma thyroxine (T4) concentrations in juvenile alligators collected from Lake Okeechobee and the northern Everglades, Florida, USA. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 21:914–921.
59 7534 Gunderson, M. P., D. S. Bermudez, T. A. Bryan, S. Degala, T. M. Edwards, S. A. E. Kools, M. R. Milnes, A. R. Woodward, and L. J. Guillette, Jr. 2004. Variation in sex steroids and phallus size in juvenile American alligators (Alligator mississippiensis) collected from three sites within the Kissimmee–Everglades drainage in Florida (USA). Chemosphere 56:335–345.
60 7533 Gunderson, M. P., E. Oberdörster, and L. J. Guillette, Jr. 2004. Phase I and II liver enzyme activities in juvenile alligators (Alligator mississippiensis) collected from three sites in the Kissimmee–Everglades drainage, Florida (USA). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology–Toxicology and Pharmacology 139:39–46.
61 2798 Gunderson, M. P., G. A. LeBlanc, and L. J. Guillette. 2001. Alterations in sexually dimorphic biotransformation of testosterone in juvenile American alligators (Alligator mississippiensis) from contaminated lakes. Environmental Health Perspectives 109:1257–1264.
62 10497 Gunderson, M. P., M. A. Pickett, J. T. Martin, E. J. Hulse, S. S. Smith, L. A. Smith, L. A., ... and L. J. Guillette Jr. 2016. Variations in hepatic biomarkers in American alligators (Alligator mississippiensis) from three sites in Florida, USA. Chemosphere 155:180–187.
63 7537 Gunderson, M. P., S. A. E. Kooles, M. R. Milnes, and L. J. Guillette, Jr. 2003. Effect of acute stress on plasma beta-corticosterone, estradiol-17 beta and testosterone concentrations in juvenile American alligators collected from three sites within the Kissimmee–Everglades drainage basin in Florida (USA). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology–Toxicology and Pharmacology 135C:365–374.
64 7907 Gunderson, M. P., S. Kohno, B. Blumberg, T. Iguchi, and L. J. Guillette, Jr. 2006. Up-regulation of the alligator CYP3A77 gene by toxaphene and dexamethasone and its short term effect on plasma testosterone concentrations. Aquatic Toxicology (Amsterdam) 78:272–283.
65 9695 Hamlin, H. J., R. H. Lowers, and L. J. Guillette, Jr. 2011. Seasonal androgen cycles in adult male American alligators (Alligator mississippiensis) from a barrier island population. Biology of Reproduction 85:1108–1113.
66 10165 Hamlin, H. J., R. H. Lowers, S. Kohno, N. Mitsui-Watanabe, H. Amano, A. Hara, Y. Ohta, S. Miyagawa, T. Iguchi, and L. J. Guillette, Jr. 2014. The reproductive hormone cycle of adult female American alligators from a barrier island population. Reproduction:The Journal of the Society for Reproduction and Fertility ?.
67 7550 Harris, C. A. 2001. Sex-change chemicals and their influence on the brain. ScientificWorldJournal 1:681–683.
68 2893 Hartley, W., and E. Hartley. 1977. The alligator: king of the wilderness. Thomas Nelson, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. 175pp.
69 2947 Heaton-Jones, T. G., and R. R. King. 1994. Characterization of the electrocardiogram of the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis). Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine 25:40–47.
70 6462 Heaton-Jones, T. G., J. C. H. Ko, and D. L. Heaton-Jones. 2002. Evaluation of medetomidine-ketamine anesthesia with atipamezole reversal in American alligators (Alligator mississippiensis). Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine 33:36–44.
71 8754 Helbing, K. C., K. Crump, C. M. Bailey, S. Kohno, N. Veldhoen, Y. Song, T. Bryan, D. S. Bermudez, J. Ausióa, and L. J. Guillette, Jr. 2007. Characterization of inhibitor of growth 2 tumor suppressor in Alligator mississippiensis, its conservation in Archosauria, and response to thyroid stimulating hormone. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part B: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 146:279–288.
72 6428 Hewitt, E. A., D. A. Crain, M. P. Gunderson, and L. J. Guillette. 2002. Thyroid status in juvenile alligators (Alligator mississippiensis) from contaminated and reference sites on Lake Okeechobee, Florida, USA. Chemosphere 47:1129–1135.
73 8693 Honeyfield, D. C., J. P. Ross, D. A. Carbonneau, S. P. Terrell, A. R. Woodward, T. R. Schoeb, H. F. Percival, and J. P. Hinterkopf. 2008. Pahtology, physiologic parameters, tissue contaminants, and tissue thiamine in morbid and healthy central Florida adult American alligators (Alligator mississippiensis). Journal of Wildlife Diseases 44:280–294.
74 3123 Hoole, W. S., editor. 1974. East Florida in 1834: letters of Dr. John Durkee. Florida Historical Quarterly 52:294–308.
75 3144 Howarter, S. R. 1999. Thermal ecology of the American alligator in the Everglades. M.S. Thesis, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 74pp.
76 7587 Janes, D., and W. H. N. Gutzke. 2002. Factors affecting retention time of turtle scutes in stomachs of American alligators, Alligator mississippiensis. American Midland Naturalist 148:115–119.
77 3428 Kam, Y.-C. 1992. Environmental influences on the critical oxygen tension, water balance, metabolism, and growth of reptilian embryos (Alligator mississippiensis, Caretta caretta, Pseudemys nelsoni, Elaphe obsoleta quadrivittata, Sceloporus undulatus undulatus). Dissertation, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 124pp.
78 8695 Kohno, S., D. S. Bermudez, Y. Katsu, T. Iguchi, and L. J. Guillette, Jr. 2008. Gene expression patterns in juvenile American alligators (Alligator mississippiensis) exposed to environmental contaminants. Aquatic Toxicology (IN PRESS).
79 7898 Lafortune, M., T. Göbel, E. Jacobson, D. Heard, D. Brown, R. Alleman, K. Vliet, K. E. Harr, and J. Hernandez. 2005. Respiratory bronchoscopy of subadult American alligators (Alligator mississippiensis) and tracheal wash evaluation. Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine 36:12–20.
80 3648 Lance, V. A., and K. A. Vliet. 1987. Effect of mammalian gonadotropins on testosterone secretion in male alligators. Journal of Experimental Zoology 241:91–94.
81 3647 Lance, V. A., and R. M. Elsey. 1986. Stress-induced suppression of testosterone secretion in male alligators. Journal of Experimental Zoology 239:241–246.
82 6435 le Roux, K., and H. Bouwman. 2001. The case of the missing sperm. Africa Geographic 8(9):73–76.
83 7535 Lind, P. M., M. R. Milnes, R. Lundberg, D. Bermudez, J. A. Orberg, and L. J. Guillette, Jr. 2004. Abnormal bone composition in female juvenile American alligators from a pesticide-polluted lake (Lake Apopka, Florida). Environmental Health Perspectives 112:359–362.
84 3908 Mahmoud, I. Y., K. Vliet, L. J. Guillette, Jr., and J. L. Plade. 1996. Effect of stress and ACTH-24 on hormonal levels in male alligators, Alligator mississippiensis. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology. Part A Physiology 115:57–62.
85 3998 Mazzotti, F. J. 1982. Effects of temperature and salinity of growth rates of hatching crocodiles and alligators: implications for their distributions in southern Florida. Page 88 (abstract) in Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles and the 30th Annual Meeting of the Herpetologists' League, 1–6 August 1982, North Carolina State Museum of Natural History, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.
86 4002 Mazzotti, F. J. 1984. Integrating behavior, physiology, and ecology in American alligators and crocodiles. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 65:156 (abstract).
87 4011 Mazzotti, F. J., and W. A. Dunson. 1984. Adaptations of Crocodylus acutus and Alligator for life in saline water. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology 79A:641–646.
88 8142 McClellan-Green, P., M. Celander, and E. Oberdörster. 2005. Hepatic, renal, and adrenal toxicology. Pages 123–148 in S. C. Gardner and E. Oberdörster, editors. Toxicology of reptiles. New perspectives: toxicology and the environment. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, USA.
89 4317 Millstein, S. R., R. K. Vander Meer, E. M. Schoenagle, and P. T. Cardeilhac. 1994. Dietary therapy for egg fertility in the American alligator: an evaluation by determining fatty acid profiles of egg yolk. Pages 10–15 in Proceedings of the 25th International Association of Aquatic Animal Medicine.
90 7903 Milnes M.R., T. A. Bryan, J. G. Medina, M. P. Gunderson M. P, and L. J. Guillette, Jr. 2005. Developmental alterations as a result of in ovo exposure to the pesticide metabolite p,p'-DDE in Alligator mississippiensis. General and Comparative Endocrinology 144:257–263.
91 7614 Milnes, M. R. 2005. Effects of environmental contaminants on development, sexual differentiation, and steroidogenesis in Alligator mississippiensis. Dissertation, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 126pp.
92 6672 Milnes, M. R., A. R. Woodward, A. R. Rooney, and L. J. Guillette, Jr. 2002. Plasma steroid concentrations in relation to size and age in juvenile alligators from two Florida lakes. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology–Part A 131:923–930.
93 7899 Milnes, M. R., D. S. Bermudez , T. A. Bryan , M. P. Gunderson, and L. J. Guillette, Jr. 2005. Altered neonatal development and endocrine function in Alligator mississippiensis associated with a contaminated environment. Biology of Reproduction 73:1004–1010.
94 8694 Milnes, M. R., T. A. Bryan , Y. Katsu , S. Kohno , B. C. Moore, T. Iguchi , and L. J. Guillette, Jr. 2008. Increased post hatching mortality and loss of sexually dimorphic gene expression in alligators (Alligator mississippiensis) from a contaminated environment. Biology of Reproduction 78:932–938.
95 8401 Monck, E. K. 2003. Developing a noninvasive method for assessing reproductive status and characterizing gender-specific plasma proteins in the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis). M.S. Thesis, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 74pp.
96 7787 Monck, E. K., J. J. Wiebe, J. S. Buckland, R. H. Rauschenberger, M. S. Sepúlveda, and T. S. Gross. 2004. Characterization of vitellogenin (VTG) and vitellins in American alligators (Alligator mississippiensis) from organochlorine pesticide (OCP) contaminated lakes in Florida. Marine Environmental Research 58:458–459 (abstract).
97 9093 Moore, B. C. 2009. The role of TGF[Beta] signaling in ovarian development and follicle assembly in the American alligator. Dissertation, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 181pp.
98 9199 Moore, B. C., H. J. Hamlin, N. L. Botteri, A. N. Lawler, K. K. Mathavan, and L. J. Guillette, Jr. 2010. Posthatching development of Alligator mississippiensis ovary and testis. Journal of Morphology 271:580–595.
99 9204 Moore, B. C., H. J. Hamlin, N. L. Botteri, and L. J. Guillette, Jr. 2010. Gonadal mRNA expression levels of TGFβ superfamily signaling factors correspond with post-hatching morphological development in American alligators. Sexual Development 4:62–72.
100 9198 Moore, B. C., K. A. Hyndman, A. Cox, A. Lawler, K. Mathavan, and L. J. Guillette, Jr. 2009. Morphology and histochemistry of juvenile American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) nephrons. The Anatomical Record: Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary Biology 292:1670–1676.
101 9574 Moore, B. C., K. Mathavan, and L. J. Guillette, Jr. 2012. Morphology and histochemistry of juvenile male American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) phallus. Anatomical Record: Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary Biology 295:328–337.
102 9959 Moore, B. C., K. Mathavan, and L. J. Guillette. 2012. Morphology and histochemistry of juvenile male American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) phallus. Anatomical Record 295:328–337.
103 9403 Moore, B. C., M. R. Milnes, S. Kohno, Y. Katsu, T. Iguchi, and L. J. Guillette, Jr. 2010. Influences of sex, incubation temperature, and environmental quality on gonadal estrogen and androgen receptor messenger RNA expression in juvenile American alligators (Alligator mississippiensis). Biology of Reproduction 82:194−201.
104 9399 Moore, B. C., M. R. Milnes, S. Kohno, Y. Katsu, T. Iguchi, T. K. Woodruff, and L. J. Guillette, Jr. 2011. Altered gonadal expression of TGF-β superfamily signaling factors in environmental contaminant-exposed juvenile alligators. Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 127:58−63.
105 9960 Nifong, J. C., A. E. Rosenblatt, N. A. Johnson, W. Barichivich, B. R. Silliman, and M. R. Heithaus. 2012. American alligator digestion rate of blue crabs and its implications for stomach contents analysis. Copeia 2012:419–423.
106 4742 O'Keefe, M. T. 1996. Seasonal guide to the natural year: a month by month guide to natural events: Florida with Georgia and Alabama coasts. Fulcrum, Golden, Colorado, USA. 342pp.
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