ReviewHormones and behavior2018
Mate choice, sexual selection, and endocrine-disrupting chemicals.
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21 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Hybridization in the Anthropocene - how pollution and climate change disrupt mate selection in freshwater fish.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2025Pooled it
- Are Behavioral Ecotoxicity Endpoints Relevant at the Population Level? Evidence-Based Insights for Environmental Protection.Environmental science & technology · 2026Review
- Uncovering the role of chemical pollutants in shaping biological invasions.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Review
- Prevalence and implications of sex reversal in free-living birds.Biology letters · 2025Article
- Endocrine effect of phthalate metabolites and a butterfly effect of prenatal exposure to androgens on qualitative aspects of female sexual response- an initial survey.International journal of impotence research · 2025Article
- EthoCRED: a framework to guide reporting and evaluation of the relevance and reliability of behavioural ecotoxicity studies.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2025Review
- Impact of Endocrine Disruptors on the Genitourinary Tract.Journal of xenobiotics · 2024Review
- Downregulation of Serotonergic System Components in an Experimentally Induced Cryptorchidism in Rabbits.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Article
- 2,4-Dichlorophenol Shows Estrogenic Endocrine Disruptor Activity by Altering Male Rat Sexual Behavior.Toxics · 2023Article
- Zebrafish gonad mutant models reveal neuroendocrine mechanisms of brain sexual dimorphism and male mating behaviors of different brain regions.Biology of sex differences · 2023Article
- Prenatal Exposure to an EDC Mixture, NeuroMix: Effects on Brain, Behavior, and Stress Responsiveness in Rats.Toxics · 2022Article
- EDCs Reorganize Brain-Behavior Phenotypic Relationships in Rats.Journal of the Endocrine Society · 2021Article
- Foundations of Erobotics.International journal of social robotics · 2021Article
- Exposure to prenatal PCBs shifts the timing of neurogenesis in the hypothalamus of developing rats.Journal of experimental zoology. Part A, Ecological and integrative physiology · 2020Article
- Sexually selected traits as bioindicators: exposure to mercury affects carotenoid-based male bill color in zebra finches.Ecotoxicology (London, England) · 2020Article
- Prenatal EDCs Impair Mate and Odor Preference and Activation of the VMN in Male and Female Rats.Endocrinology · 2020Article
- Developmental polychlorinated biphenyl exposure influences adult zebra finch reproductive behaviour.PloS one · 2020Article
- Endocrine-disrupting chemicals: Effects on neuroendocrine systems and the neurobiology of social behavior.Hormones and behavior · 2019Review
- Social and neuromolecular phenotypes are programmed by prenatal exposures to endocrine-disrupting chemicals.Molecular and cellular endocrinology · 2019Article
- Maternal care modulates transgenerational effects of endocrine-disrupting chemicals on offspring pup vocalizations and adult behaviors.Hormones and behavior · 2019Article
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Abstract
Humans have disproportionately affected the habitat and survival of species through environmental contamination. Important among these anthropogenic influences is the proliferation of organic chemicals, some of which perturb hormone systems, the latter referred to as endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs). EDCs are widespread in the environment and affect all levels of reproduction, including development of reproductive organs, hormone release and regulation through the life cycle, the development of secondary sexual characteristics, and the maturation and maintenance of adult physiology and behavior. However, what is not well-known is how the confluence of EDC actions on the manifestation of morphological and behavioral sexual traits influences mate choice, a process that requires the reciprocal evaluation of and/or acceptance of a sexual partner. Moreover, the outcomes of EDC-induced perturbations are likely to influence sexual selection; yet this has rarely been directly tested. Here, we provide background on the development and manifestation of sexual traits, reproductive competence, and the neurobiology of sexual behavior, and evidence for their perturbation by EDCs. Selection acts on individuals, with the consequences manifest in populations, and we discuss the implications for EDC contamination of these processes, and the future of species.
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