[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 …

Adult sex ratios: causes of variation and implications for animal and human societies

R Schacht, SR Beissinger, C Wedekind… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
Converging lines of inquiry from across the social and biological sciences target the adult
sex ratio (ASR; the proportion of males in the adult population) as a fundamental population …

Sex ratios in a warming world: thermal effects on sex-biased survival, sex determination, and sex reversal

S Edmands - Journal of Heredity, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Rising global temperatures threaten to disrupt population sex ratios, which can in turn cause
mate shortages, reduce population growth and adaptive potential, and increase extinction …

Meta‐analysis of global livestock urine‐derived nitrous oxide emissions from agricultural soils

M López‐Aizpún, CA Horrocks… - Global change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Nitrous oxide (N2O) is an air pollutant of major environmental concern, with agriculture
representing 60% of anthropogenic global N2O emissions. Much of the N2O emissions from …

Sex-chromosome evolution in frogs: what role for sex-antagonistic genes?

N Perrin - … Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Sex-antagonistic (SA) genes are widely considered to be crucial players in the evolution of
sex chromosomes, being instrumental in the arrest of recombination and degeneration of Y …

Temperature-induced sex reversal in reptiles: prevalence, discovery, and evolutionary implications

SL Whiteley, MA Castelli, DSB Dissanayake… - Sexual …, 2021 - karger.com
Sex reversal is the process by which an individual develops a phenotypic sex that is
discordant with its chromosomal or genotypic sex. It occurs in many lineages of ectothermic …

[HTML][HTML] “Heat waves” experienced during larval life have species-specific consequences on life-history traits and sexual development in anuran amphibians

J Ujszegi, R Bertalan, N Ujhegyi, V Verebélyi… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Extreme temperatures during heat waves can induce mass-mortality events, but can also
exert sublethal negative effects by compromising life-history traits and derailing sexual …

[HTML][HTML] Sex reversal and ontogeny under climate change and chemical pollution: are there interactions between the effects of elevated temperature and a …

Z Mikó, E Nemesházi, N Ujhegyi, V Verebélyi… - Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Anthropogenic environmental change poses a special threat to species in which genetic sex
determination can be overwritten by the thermal and chemical environment. Endocrine …

High elevation increases the risk of Y chromosome loss in Alpine skink populations with sex reversal

DSB Dissanayake, CE Holleley, JE Deakin, A Georges - Heredity, 2021 - nature.com
The view that has genotypic sex determination and environmental sex determination as
mutually exclusive states in fishes and reptiles has been contradicted by the discovery that …

[HTML][HTML] A review of non-destructive biomonitoring techniques to assess the impacts of pollution on reproductive health in frogs and toads

F Orton, B Roberts-Rhodes, C Whatley… - … and Environmental Safety, 2023 - Elsevier
In anuran amphibians (frogs and toads), evidence linking pollution to population declines is
limited, in particular through impaired reproduction. Here we review the evidence for …