Trans-generational effect of antibiotics
Story Date: 5/31/2012

 
Source: FARM PROGRESS, 5/30/12
 
In a paper published in Nature’s open access journal Scientific Reports researchers at the University of Nevada, Reno, reports that male pseudo-scorpions treated with the antibiotic tetracycline suffer significantly reduced sperm viability and pass this toxic effect on to their untreated sons.

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