2.5 parts per billion and it turns them into females.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/science/03/01/pesticide.study.frogs/index.html?hpt=Sbin
Researchers found that long-term exposure to low levels of atrazine – 2.5 parts per billion of water – emasculated three-quarters of laboratory frogs and turned one in 10 into females. Scientists believe the pesticide interferes with endocrine hormones, such as estrogen and testosterone.
Don’t frogs easily turn genders anyway? Seems I read/saw somewhere that if there aren’t enough of one sex some will mutate into the other sex.
Maybe that was Jurassic park.
[quote]dday wrote:
Don’t frogs easily turn genders anyway? Seems I read/saw somewhere that if there aren’t enough of one sex some will mutate into the other sex.
Maybe that was Jurassic park.[/quote]
It was Jurassic park.
[quote]dday wrote:
Don’t frogs easily turn genders anyway? Seems I read/saw somewhere that if there aren’t enough of one sex some will mutate into the other sex.
Maybe that was Jurassic park.[/quote]
sounds like prison. zing.