Declining Male Fertility Linked To Water Pollution - 1 views
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Some of these are contained in medicines, including cancer treatments, pharmaceutical treatments, and pesticides used in agriculture. The research suggests that when they get into the water system, these chemicals may play a pivotal role in causing feminising effects in male fish
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Do these chemicals just cause these problems in vertebrates, like fish? Would it be possible to obtain chemicals like this, and test them on an invertebrate species?
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Found in some industrial chemicals and the contraceptive pill,
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Birth control pills could cause this? How would that actually work? How could a birth control pill cause a male to change gender? What levels of the hormone are required to cause this gender change?
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