Thursday, February 23, 2012

Selenium: Mutagen or Teratogen?

Did exposure to selenium pollution cause the freaky little creatures at the left side of this page to be born with, well, conditions that make it unlikely that they could survive?

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/23/science/earth/mutated-trout-raise-new-concerns-over-selenium.html

Or was it some other pollutant? And, if any of these deformed fishes do survive, will their offspring inherit their deformities?

Selenium pollution is, as noted in the New York Times article, a known by-product of strip mining.

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