Hormone disrupting chemicals risk of extinction in wildlife
Exeter, UK (SPX) Mar 05, 2015 - The impact of pollution on wildlife could be made dramatically worse by climate change according to a new study published in the journal PNAS. Researchers from the University of Exeter and Astra-Zeneca found that clotrimazole, a chemical that disrupts hormones and is commonly used in anti-fungal treatments, skewed sex-ratios in zebrafish in favour of males. These effects were amplified whe ... more
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