Something fishy happens when the pesticide DDT gets into eggs—it can transform genetically male fish into apparent females. These altered males are fertile, able to lay eggs that produce young, according to a new study.
A genetically male medaka fish, transformed by DDT, lays eggs. Ramsdell
“We were really not expecting to see complete [sex] reversal at all,” says John S.
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