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The seven year itch—progress in research on endocrine disruption in aquatic invertebrates since 1999

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Since the quality of the papers in this issue reflects not only the efforts of the authors, but also those of the reviewers, we would like to acknowledge them for their important and valuable input. In alphabetical order they are: Michel Anctil, Université de Montréal, Québec, Canada; Michael Baker, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA; Carlos Barroso, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal; Stefan Berking, University of Cologne, Germany; G. Thomas Chandler, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA; Ernest S. Chang, University of California-Davis, CA, USA; David Chitwood, United States Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, MD, USA; Ian Davies, FRS Marine Laboratory, Aberdeen, UK; Arnold de Loof, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium; Piet den Besten, RIZA, Lelystad, The Netherlands; Annette de Vaufleury, University of Franche-Comté, Besançon, France; Laurence Dinan, University of Exeter, UK; Andreas Gies, Federal Environment Agency, Dessau, Germany; Åke Granmo, Kristineberg Marine Research Station, Fiskebäckskil, Sweden; Jukka Jokela, EAWAG, Duebendorf, Switzerland; Dirk Jungmann, Technical University of Dresden, Germany; Joris Koene, Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Heinz - R. Köhler, University of Tübingen, Germany; Jussi Kukkonen, University of Joensuu, Finland; Gerald A. LeBlanc, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA; Thomas Leitz, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany; Pat McClellan-Green, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA; Ralf Menzel, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany; Matthias Oetken, J.W. Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; Marina Paolucci, University of Sannio, Benevento, Italy; Tom Pottinger, NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Lancaster, UK; Tessa Scown, University of Exeter, UK; Helmut Segner, University of Bern, Switzerland; Dave Skingsley, Staffordshire University, UK; Guy Smagghe, Ghent University, Belgium; Thomas Soin, Ghent University, Belgium; Hans-Christian Stolzenberg, Federal Environment Agency, Dessau, Germany; Ann Tarrant, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, MA, USA; Nobuaki Tominaga, Ariake National College of Technology, Omuta, Fukuoka, Japan; Ronny van Aerle, University of Exeter, UK; Mike Waldock, CEFAS, Weymouth, UK; Barbara Werschkun, Federal Environment Agency, Dessau, Germany; Tim Williams, AstraZeneca, Brixham, UK; Sabine Zok, BASF, Ludwigshafen, Germany; Enmin Zou, Nicholls State University, Thibodaux, Louisiana, USA.

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  1. Agricultural Center, Ecotoxicology, BASF Aktiengesellschaft, Carl-Bosch-Strasse 64, D-67117, Limburgerhof, Germany

    Lennart Weltje

  2. Department of Ecology and Evolution – Ecotoxicology, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Siesmayerstrasse 70, D-60054, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

    Ulrike Schulte-Oehlmann

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Weltje, L., Schulte-Oehlmann, U. The seven year itch—progress in research on endocrine disruption in aquatic invertebrates since 1999. Ecotoxicology 16, 1–3 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10646-006-0116-y

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