toxicant
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Skinner and his colleagues also conducted epigenetic analysis of each generation of the animals, finding that the toxicant exposures shifted their entire epigenetics dramatically.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 23, 2024
The study provides evidence that multiple toxicant exposures of past human generations likely had a compounded impact on grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 23, 2024
Sugar bait with a toxicant, such as boric acid, typically works well, as many of the ant species that enter homes are sweet-loving ants.
From Seattle Times ● May 4, 2023
“They may not have been a toxicant at low levels,” Rue says, but “we could be crossing a threshold.”
From Scientific American ● Nov. 4, 2021
The birds were the unintended victims of a field experiment to test a toxicant — one intended for feral pigs, but no other animals — that had been developed in Australia.
From Salon ● May 23, 2021
