Crude oil causes heart and skull deformities in haddock

Wednesday, August 10, 2016 - 10:31 in Biology & Nature

Even brief exposures of the eggs of Atlantic haddock to low concentrations of dispersed crude oil can cause severe and usually deadly deformities in developing fish, an international research team has found. The findings indicate that oil spills at high latitudes could have serious impacts on some of the world’s most important fisheries, including those […]

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