Article
Populations of a cyprinid fish are self-sustaining despite widespread feminization of males.
BMC biology - 13 Jan 2014
Hamilton Patrick B, Nicol Elizabeth, De-Bastos Eliane S R, Williams Richard J, Sumpter John P, Jobling Susan, Stevens Jamie R, Tyler Charles R
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Treated effluents from wastewater treatment works can comprise a large proportion of the flow of rivers in the developed world. Exposure to these effluents, or the steroidal estrogens they contain, feminizes wild male fish and can reduce their reproductive fitness. Long-term experimental exposures have resulted in skewed sex ratios, reproductive failures in breeding colonies, and population collapse....
Read the complete abstract on PubMedTopics
Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.