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Common Pesticide Turns Male Frogs Female

KUER 90.1
Published January 18, 2008 at 9:50 AM MST
Tyrone Hayes, Professor of Integrative Biology at the University of California-Berkeley
Peg Skorpinski
Tyrone Hayes, Professor of Integrative Biology at the University of California-Berkeley

By Jenny Brundin

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Salt Lake City, UT – Why are male frogs turning into female frogs in places across America? Dr. Tyrone Hayes' research points to the most widely-used weed killer in America -- atrazine. In a lecture at the University of Utah, Dr. Hayes explained his research on the herbicide used to grow corn and manufactured by agro-giant Syngenta, formerly Novartis. Atrazine is banned in Europe, but it's still the most widely-used weed killer in this country.
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