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Mongabay: One of the world's most popular pesticides, atrazine, chemically castrates male frogs and in some instances changes them into completely functionally females, according to a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The authors conclude that atrazine likely plays a large, but unsuspected role in the current global amphibian crisis. To study how atrazine impacts frogs, researchers studied the long-term effects of the pesticide on an all-male group forty of ......
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Common pesticide changes male frogs into females, likely devastating populations
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 1st, 2010
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