04 Jul 2008

Agriculture and frog sexual abnormalities

A farm irrigation canal would seem a healthier place for toads than a ditch by a supermarket parking lot. But University of Florida researchers have found the opposite is true. In a study with wide implications for a longstanding debate over whether agricultural chemicals pose a threat to amphibians, UF zoologists have observed that toads in suburban areas are less likely to suffer from reproductive system abnormalities than toads near farms where some had both testes and ovaries........

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