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From Environmental Science & Technology: Keywords: Malation; Atrazine
Date:
Thu, 1 Aug 2002 09:10:02 -0400
From:
Stephen Tvedten <steve@getipm.com>
Organization: Get Set Inc. (www.getipm.com)
To: Paul Helliker <phelliker@cdpr.ca.gov>
Director, State of California, Department of Pesticide
Regulation
CC: "Brian J. Foster" <bfoster@swlaw.com>
cc: Christine Whitman
whitman.christine@epa.gov
From Environmental Science & Technology :keywords: malation; atrazine
"Wood frogs exposed to common pesticides, such as atrazine and malathion, are more likely to have weakened immune systems, which appears to render the amphibians more susceptible to infections by limb-deforming trematode larvae, according to field and lab work by biologist Joseph Kiesecker of Pennsylvania State University. Although the research confirms that trematode infections are the main culprit for limb deformities, it raises the question of whether pesticide pollution is contributing to the rapid increase in deformed frogs."
http://pubs.acs.org/subscribe/journals/esthag-w/2002/jul/science/lk_frog.html
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