Urban fish masculinized by hormone-mimicking chemicals

Thursday, September 26, 2013 - 08:30 in Earth & Climate

(Phys.org) —It's a man's world for fish in a San Francisco Bay-Delta estuary. Silverside fish collected from an urban beach in Suisun Marsh were more masculinized, but with smaller and less healthy gonads, than were neighboring silversides swimming near a cattle ranch in the marsh, according to a new study led by the University of California, Davis.

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