Herbicides: feminization of male frogs in the wild.

Nature

Laboratory for Integrative Studies in Amphibian Biology, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, and Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720-3140, USA.

Published: October 2002

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