{"id":405998,"date":"2010-03-09T00:24:38","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T05:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itecsinsider.com\/?p=14177"},"modified":"2010-03-09T00:24:38","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T05:24:38","slug":"pesticide-atrazine-can-turn-male-frogs-into-females","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/405998","title":{"rendered":"Pesticide Atrazine Can Turn Male Frogs Into Females"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 6pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14176\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px;\" title=\"Frog\" src=\"http:\/\/itecsinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Frog.jpg\" alt=\"Frog\" width=\"95\" height=\"71\" \/>(ScienceDaily, March 1, 2010) \u2014 Atrazine, one of the world&#8217;s most widely used pesticides, wreaks havoc with the sex lives of adult male frogs, emasculating three-quarters of them and turning one in 10 into females, according to a new study by University of California, Berkeley, biologists.\u00a0 The 75 percent that are chemically castrated are essentially &#8220;dead&#8221; because of their inability to reproduce in the wild, reports UC Berkeley&#8217;s Tyrone B. Hayes, professor of integrative biology.\u00a0 &#8220;These male frogs are missing testosterone and all the things that testosterone controls, including sperm. So their fertility is as low as 10 percent in some cases, and that is only if we isolate those animals and pair them with females,&#8221; he said. &#8220;In an environment where they are competing with unexposed animals, they have zero chance of reproducing.&#8221;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2010\/03\/100301151927.htm\">Click here to read more&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(ScienceDaily, March 1, 2010) \u2014 Atrazine, one of the world&#8217;s most widely used pesticides, wreaks havoc with the sex lives of adult male frogs, emasculating three-quarters of them and turning one in 10 into females, according to a new study by University of California, Berkeley, biologists.\u00a0 The 75 percent that are chemically castrated are essentially [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}