[HTML][HTML] Impacts of endocrine disrupting chemicals on reproduction in wildlife and humans

VL Marlatt, S Bayen, D Castaneda-Cortès… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) are ubiquitous in aquatic and terrestrial
environments. The main objective of this review was to summarize the current knowledge of …

Effects of the environmental estrogenic contaminants bisphenol A and 17α-ethinyl estradiol on sexual development and adult behaviors in aquatic wildlife species

RK Bhandari, SL Deem, DK Holliday… - General and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs), including the mass-produced component of
plastics, bisphenol A (BPA) are widely prevalent in aquatic and terrestrial habitats. Many …

Potential local regulatory functions of inhibins, activins and follistatin in the ovary

PG Knight, C Glister - Reproduction, 2001 - rep.bioscientifica.com
The changing pattern of granulosa cell expression of inhibin/activin subunits and follistatin
during follicle development and their differential regulation by extrinsic and intraovarian …

Differential incubation temperatures result in dimorphic DNA methylation patterning of the SOX9 and aromatase promoters in gonads of alligator (Alligator …

BB Parrott, S Kohno, JA Cloy-McCoy… - Biology of …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Environmental factors are known to influence sex determination in many nonmammalian
vertebrates. In all crocodilians studied thus far, temperature is the only known determinant of …

The sex‐determination pattern in crocodilians: A systematic review of three decades of research

EJ González, M Martínez‐López… - Journal of Animal …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Sex in crocodilians is not determined by chromosomes, but by egg incubation temperature,
where different temperatures produce different clutch sex ratios. Two patterns have been …

Embryos as targets of endocrine disrupting contaminants in wildlife

HJ Hamlin, LJ Guillette Jr - Birth Defects Research Part C …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Environmental contaminants are now a ubiquitous part of the ecological landscape, and a
growing literature describes the ability of many of these chemicals to alter the developmental …

[PDF][PDF] Influence of tissue, age, and environmental quality on DNA methylation in Alligator mississippiensis

BB Parrott, JA Bowden, S Kohno, JA Cloy-McCoy… - Reproduction, 2014 - tsapps.nist.gov
Epigenetic modifications are key mediators of the interactions between the environment and
an organism's genome. DNA methylation represents the best-studied epigenetic …

Gonadal differentiation in reptiles exhibiting environmental sex determination

S Kohno, BB Parrott, R Yatsu, S Miyagawa… - Sexual …, 2014 - karger.com
As temperature-dependent sex determination (TSD) and homozygote or heterozygote
genetic sex determination (GSD) exist in multiple reptilian taxa, they represent sex …

Histomorphological changes in testes of broad‐snouted caimans (Caiman latirostris) associated with in ovo exposure to endocrine‐disrupting chemicals

M Durando, G Canesini, LL Cocito… - … Zoology Part A …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Studies regarding the effects of endocrine‐disrupting chemicals (EDCs) on the reproductive
functions of wild animals have raised increasing concern. Thus, here we evaluated the …

Endocrine disruption and reptiles: Using the unique attributes of temperature‐dependent sex determination to assess impacts

S Kohno, LJ Guillette Jr - Endocrine disrupters: Hazard testing …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Given the similarities in genetic and cellular function among vertebrates, species exposed to
endocrine‐disrupting compounds (EDCs) could be used as sentinels to determine potential …