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The importance of population contextual data for large-scale biomonitoring usin...
Ratajc, Urška; Lourenço, Rui; Espín, Silvia; Sánchez-Virosta, Pablo; Birrer, Simon; Studler, Dani; Wernham, Chris; Vrezec, AlTop predators are often used as sentinel species in contaminant monitoring due to their exposure and vulnerability to persistent, bioaccumulative and, in some cases, biomagnificable contaminants. Some of their ecological traits can vary in space and time, and are known to influence the contamination levels and therefore information on ecological traits should be used as contextual data for correct interpretatio...
Transgenerational endocrine disruption: does elemental pollution affect egg or ...
Ruuskanen, Suvi; Espín, Silvia; Sánchez-Virosta, Pablo; Sarraude, Tom; Hsu, Bin-Yan; Pajunen, Piia; Costa, Rute A.; Eens, Marcel; Hargitai, RitaEndocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) include a wide array of pollutants, such as some metals and other toxic elements, which may cause changes in hormonal homeostasis. In addition to affecting physiology of individuals directly, EDCs may alter the transfer of maternal hormones to offspring, i.e. causing transgenerational endocrine disruption. However, such effects have been rarely studied, especially in wild p...