Two common water pollutants can function in shellfish as the female sex hormone estrogen does. However, new studies show different behavioral effects of those contaminants on two species.
Elliptio complanata is a freshwater mussel whose populations are seriously declining in the United States. Katherine Flynn of Adelphi University in Garden City, N.Y.,
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