Thursday, June 9, 2011
Female Fish with Testes
A recent study of Atlantic croaker fish living in the Gulf of Mexico show that the annual low-oxygen "dead zone" caused by agricultural and waste runoff of the Mississippi River shows the female fish developing malformed testes, a result of hypoxia to the brain during sexual development reducing production of estrogen and necessary neurohormones with as little as ten weeks exposure.
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