ArticleBiology letters2021
Fish from urban rivers and with high pollutant levels have shorter telomeres.
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- Co-Exposure with the Herbicide 2,4-D Does Not ExacerbateAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
- A tale of two rivers: development, destruction, and despair in Ongata Rongai, Kenya.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Individual Differences in Relative Telomere Length in Mentally Healthy Subjects: The Effect ofRussian journal of genetics · 2022Article
- Hatchery tanks induce intense reduction in microbiota diversity associated with gills and guts of two endemic species of the São Francisco River.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
- Fish from urban rivers and with high pollutant levels have shorter telomeres.Biology letters · 2021Article
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Abstract
Environmental pressures, such as urbanization and exposure to pollutants may jeopardize survival of free-living animals. Yet, much remains to be known about physiological and ecological responses to currently-released pollutants, especially in wild vertebrate ectotherms. We tested the effect of urbanization and pollution (phthalates, organochlorine and pyrethroid pesticides, polychlorobiphenyls, polybromodiphenylethers, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, and some of their metabolites) on telomere length, a suggested biomarker of life expectancy, in the European chub,
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