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Catbirds are the New Chickens: High Sensitivity to a Dioxin-like Compound in a Wildlife Species.
Environmental science & technology - 2 May 2017
Eng Margaret L, Bishop Christine A, Crump Doug, Jones Stephanie P, Williams Tony D, Drouillard Kenneth G, Elliott John E
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Dioxins and dioxin-like compounds (DLCs) are highly toxic and persistent global pollutants with extremely large differences in sensitivity across taxonomic groups. The chicken has long been considered uniquely sensitive to DLCs among avian species; but DLC toxicity in nondomesticated birds is largely untested, and the relevance of the chicken as an ecological model is uncertain. New approaches that use genotyping...
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