Trace amounts of crude oil found to harm Gulf fish Gene expression changes due to BP Horizon oil contamination have been recorded in Gulf killifish. The results of the genetic changes could interfere with larval development and later adult populations. Oil spill effects are more about the forces that don’t kill wildlife than they are about the changes that do kill. These are the changes that affect the populations for generations to come. (via Nature News, image via ARLIS Reference)
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Trace amounts of crude oil found to harm Gulf fish

Gene expression changes due to BP Horizon oil contamination have been recorded in Gulf killifish. The results of the genetic changes could interfere with larval development and later adult populations.

Oil spill effects are more about the forces that don’t kill wildlife than they are about the changes that do kill. These are the changes that affect the populations for generations to come.

(via Nature News, image via ARLIS Reference)

Source: nature.com

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